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Are there any google docs proxies, like how Piped is a YouTube proxy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I sometimes get linked google docs links and would like to view them without visiting a google site directly.

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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah you're right that's not a useful answer. This question in particular was also prompted by being linked a public resource, so even if I got someone else to download it for me and send it to me as a .ods file (it was a Google Sheets link specifically), that would just be offloading who visits the google site to someone else. Ie using your friend as a proxy. Which may be fine if you just don't want to visit the site yourself and that's your only objection, but I am pretty easily traceable to the type of friend who would send me a google docs link, and it definitely doesn't offer the same anonymity as a proxy like Piped which is used by a lot of people (as opposed to a proxy like my friend, a proxy which is only used by one person...)