I used to pay for ad-free...but we all know that's not an option anymore. We also know that the regular price is just too much for what you get. My workaround? I now run TubeSync on docker (on Unraid specifically) - it took a bit to set up and configure as adding my channels was a bit of a chore, and that also worked best if I converted each one to a channel ID (done here).

Overnight it checks all the channels for new content, and if it finds some it is downloaded automatically and dropped into a folder that Plex watches....and after that it is no different to watching anything else on Plex.

Lastly, anything older than three weeks is purged automatically....set and forget unless I want to add/remove a channel. 

It's been running for a few weeks now and it is pretty sweet - I would have preferred a cheap ad-free service, but this also works fine for me as 95% of everything is now uninterrupted.  :-)

EDIT: Typos...I'm a knuckle dragger.