It sounds like you have the problem letting go of the ad subsidized media, apparently many people are fine with it.
If you can't afford to pay for the ad free content, fair enough, but maybe be grateful you at least have a means of getting it without paying.
It’s already happening, a while back I got a subscription to the Discovery streaming platform and occasionally it would interrupt the show with an ad. I refuse to pay for that, so I unsubscribed. But sooner or later I will have no choice anymore.
History is repeating itself and yet you still have people in this very thread carting out the tired old bromide: "the market will take care of it, vote with your wallet". Well, it clearly won't in this case.
1. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...
One negative change though is Public Broadcasting Services are being encouraged to be self funding, which may reduce the options for free and ad-free content!
This doesn't really work. Paid Cable/Satellite TV has ads all over the place. Even the extra premium channels will put cross promotion between the shows to fill the time slots. Paid streaming has cross promotion on almost all services, and some services have actual ads even when you paid (sometimes there's a higher tier you can pay for which has fewer ads). Of course, paying for content on disc, when available, doesn't prevent ads either.