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Nope. Because legitimate interest kicks in there - you can’t provide the requested service without the IP address. At all.

Turn off Google analytics and you can still provide the service.

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Really you should just stop using Google analytics. I know all the data is really fun to look at and can even be useful but it’s a bit like poisoning people just for walking into your business.

> I know all the data is really fun to look at

bit of voyeurism as well

You most definitely can provide a service without having a US IP address. Many services have IPs and servers in the EU instead of the US.

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