My torrent program and prowlarr use a VPN. I don't bother using it for normal browsing.

Not sure what this comment means. I'm in a poor eastern country and I use VPN to Netherlands to browse torrent trackers. Pretty sure my country is far more problematic than central EU, but for whatever reason my poor country protects US interests more than most of the EU

Depends on how the country is doing it. If they are just flat out dropping traffic to the routes, changing DNS won't save you.

I use Firefox private DNS and still it doesn't work for some reason.