What’s about the claim that if you drop GA, your site will degraded by Google and you’ll lose traffic?
(I'm the Plausible co-founder)
In fact, in that context, if you're a pro-privacy person then Google should - again in theory - be more prone to recommend privacy-respecting sites to you. True, that's counterintuitive given Google's biz model. However, that biz model breaks down even faster when people stop returning because they are unhappy w/ search results.
Put another way, it's only a matter of time before DDG and the like use the pro-privacy signal to move sites up the SERP. DDG already knows you probably prefer that, as that's why you use DDG. It certainly would be a helpful icon DDG could add to their SERPs.