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I think if done right there would be a market (if this is actually the right direction and useful is another question).

wbaas.io "web browser as a service"

Support like say the 5 major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, ...), provide an API and charge like ~xx euro/month.

The biggest challenge is probably to make it secure as one builds in essence a DOS proxy?

That's what TestingBot offers; a cloud of browsers to run automated tests. Pricing depends on test duration and concurrency.

We secure all VMs with a firewall, every test runs on a new VM which gets destroyed after the test.

There totally is a market for it. Sauce Labs makes $25MM/year doing it. One way to secure the service is by using pristine virtual machines for each session and discarding them afterwards.

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