[temp2022account]

Not OP but I do something similar, because I know each ad I see costs someone $$$. This leads to odd behavior like making sure I let youtube ads play for their full duration and I'll usually click on sponsor links + their pages enough to trigger the first flag of a sales pipeline, ensuring the company responsible for the ad pays as much as possible for it.

[bit-101]

And therefore you are rewarding and validating this behavior, so that content authors continue to pile on more and worse ads.