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disappointing, because alternatives matter too. quad9 and other well known servers are potentially blocked by some countries, so the more lesser known services there are the better.

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There is always the option of running your own locally.

This is probably service you can host locally with the lowest maintenance and hardware requirements so it isn't even a hassle to do it yourself.

if i live in a country where DNS is filtered then running my own locally is not going to work.

Mullvad talks a lot about decentralization, then hands its resolver users to one of the biggest resolvers going. Quad9 is a good operator, and they actually fought Sony in German court instead of quietly complying. They still got ordered to block. That's the problem. A blocking order only hurts as much as the resolver it lands on is used, so every operator that shuts down and sends its users to Quad9 makes the next order a better deal for whoever files it.

exactly. and those servers are also easily blocked because they are known publicly. i see this problem right now. 4 out of 5 providers that i tried are not working from where i am

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