I sometimes get linked google docs links and would like to view them without visiting a google site directly.
Afaik, no
I’m not aware of any Google Docs frontends. But maybe a dummy Google account using a private window with ad-blocking and tracker-blocking enabled would work?
Even when using open source alternatives the server know your IP and you don’t know what they are going to do.
They were asking about a proxy, not a frontend. Like, invidious and piped are YouTube frontends, but both of them has a proxy feature, always-on with piped, which makes the frontend proxy all requests (even video segments) through the server of your choice.
So with a proxy service, google will not see your IP, unless the proxy you use is a mole.
Not a proxy, but cryptpad is a fairly good alternative.
