I'm on the record saying the AV industry needs to take attacks against (or leveraging) AV more seriously, but I think things there are some differences with browsers:
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The latter. Obviously. So my recommendation would always be for high-target people (like certain journalists) to harden their devices to the point that AV doesn't really add anything any more. And for those gamers to install AV to prevent them downloading that trojan.
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If I install AV, I can download and safely run any exe I find in a forum? Obviously not, but apparently this is a threat model you want to support, but you still argue it's not okay to say "doesn't work"?
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I agree with Martijn. As a layman i also question if our current computer hardware-software stack is at all capable of providing security. The most comforting thought is it is not.
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