Regarding forbidden countries, it’s not forbidden in the Netherlands, yet. They will announce a verdict in a form of a report by the end of 2022 [1].
To give people an option and pink something else over Google Analytics, I have built an alternative, Simple Analytics [2].
It doesn’t use cookies or any form of tracking and you get still the useful data that 80% of the website owners need.
[1] https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/nl/onderwerpen/interne... (in Dutch)