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Why not use 9.9.9.9 ?

The project is from IBM and few other companies, and includes threat data from major players in the security space

Https://quad9.net

In my region (Cyprus, a mediterranean island) only Google and Cloudflare are fast. Quad9 is significantly slower here.

If you had any cisco hardware in your network stack that is likely the reason.

Our company's captive portal still takes you to 1.1.1.1

Did you report this to us? Would be interested to know why.

(I’m not the OP) My experience was that 1.1.1.1 didn’t interact well with captive.apple.com so I had a lot of confusing experiences on planes and airports, and eventually had to stop using it.

How long ago was that, if I can ask?

Op here. No, never reported it. But I think I've read somewhere (this is only unvalidated speculation now) that Google DNS and regular DNS do more fallbacks and are working also with not well configured DNSes where as Cloudflare is more strict but I don't have time to validate that. For me it's easier to just switch my DNS and go on.