Your willingness to try to play fair to advertisers (a group with an earned reputation of going out of their way to avoid anything resembling good faith) is admirable, but won't show up in metrics.

Protect your attention (and frustration levels) by running adblock full time. If you want to influence their behavior so everyone stops running annoying ads. You have to give the ad sellers a reason to re-evaluate what ads they're willing to show. The only way you can do that is increasing the number of users who don't view ads. Starting with in off, makes you a user who views ads, not the kind making a point.

It's unlikely that you're meaningfully able to influence the system. You're much more likely to respond and adapt to the system, so it's more likely that youtube has trained you to watch ads.