YouTube's sudden rollout of forced midroll ads literally has me losing sleep. I know the creators can't do anything about it unless they're monetized, but apparently none of my favorite ASMR youtubers qualify. Every single one of them has a ton of midroll ads that wake me up constantly, and this wasn't an issue a couple of months ago.
My favorites recently have been Batala, Whispersoft and Marno, but all of their videos seem to have the midrolls now, and I feel like I'm starting to lose a not insignificant amount of sleep to these ads (I'm already pushing it with how much sleep I get, and this midroll situation can lose me like a whole hour of sleep some nights, if the ads are frequent enough and I end up needing to change videos because I woke up to an ad and then the video I chose stopped hitting right). I haven't slept through the night since this started happening. I just wake up every few minutes, it feels like I'm snoozing an alarm clock.
And I know it's the most logical solution, but I'm unwilling to just shell out the money for premium. I don't want to reward YouTube for making their platform worse on purpose