[nitn]

Why is the government using Google Analytics (which is now illegal in some countries) instead of self hosting an analytics solution.

[qiqitori]

Back in my day, the mantra was "Information wants to be free", and laws limiting freedom on the internet and freedom of information were looked down upon.

[shadowgovt]

Back in the day usage of the internet grossly over-represented one country with a concept of free speech that, by global standards, is extremist.

[hhh]

Is it illegal in the United States?

[charcircuit]

No

[blibble]

the GDPR doesn't care where the website is as long as it's accessible to EU citizens

it would be most amusing to watch the EU commission attempt to enforce its extraterritorial !bad, bad cookies! law against the US federal government on its own website

[notatoad]

is there a self-hosted alternative that provides the same functionality?

[EricE]

Lots! One that I really liked - tried on a small personal project so not sure how it works at scale: https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics

[xeromal]

Easy