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Best of all, if you check the traffic, you still see it sending your info off to Google Analytics.

Try uMatrix: https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

Super simple web connection switchboard by Gorhill (person behind uBlock Origin).

It allows you to assign certain addresses and elements to block calls from/to. For example 'www.google-analytics.com'. I use it as a catch-all when loading a web page, then release elements that I want to load.

Hah I knew that http code would come in handy one day

heh yeah, same here...in france.

I see the same from Germany.

at least they admit to doing shady business with the users' data.

AKA tracking a visit or something. GDPR is so blanketed that some sites are just turning off access since it's easier to do.