It’s a well-known fact that a VPN will encrypt all your traffic through the VPN tunnel gateway. But if you want to secure only your browser traffic, or a bittorrent client and any software that’s capable of using SOCKS5, then SSH+SOCKS5 is what you’re looking for.
NextDNS Review
NextDNS is a powerful DNS service with strong focus on security and privacy. It is so good that I would recommend it to my closest friends.