Ironically I had the same experience with Apple News app - I was seeing the same ads over and over again. I can not block the ads and I didn’t want to subscribe

Ironically I had the same experience with Apple News app - I was seeing the same ads over and over again. I can not block the ads and I didn’t want to subscribe. I just gave up and toggled the setting to show personalized ads - hoping to at lease see something different.