[TulliusCicero]

> Why is there an implicit agreement that okay Google is the gatekeeper.

Because they run a popular browser and don't want their users getting scammed?

For each tech savvy person mad about this, there's 10 non-tech-savvy people completely oblivious that could get scammed by phishing sites we'd consider obvious.

Sure, they should do a better job, but that blacklist is probably millions of websites big at this point. It's the kind of thing where a perfect job is essentially impossible, and the scale means that even doing a decent job is going to be extremely difficult.