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Wasn't this a feature of Amazon's Silk browser?

"The browser uses a split architecture where some of the processing is performed on Amazon's servers to improve webpage loading performance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Silk

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Silk, Puffin, Opera Mini, Opera Turbo, Maxthon - are all predecessors.

Well, this idea of a remote browser has some predecessors but the true lineage goes back to VT-80 and mainframes.

Opera Mini did it first.

I was young when that was first announced and privacy wasn't as big deal or a concern as it is these days. I remember it making the news and me being excited about it and noticing how fast everything was. It took a day or two for my brain to catch up and ask "this means they have access to everything?"

I abandoned it right away.

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