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by TekMol 1232 days ago
The issue is not related to consent but to "safeguards".

GDPR requires that user data is guarded in certain ways, and European courts have ruled that no data can be sufficiently safeguarded if it is under control of a US company.

Google "analytics gdpr safeguards" or see here for example:

https://piwik.pro/blog/is-google-analytics-gdpr-compliant/

Especially the section "Does collecting visitors’ consent solve compliance issues with Google Analytics?".