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A Steamworks documentation change explicitly states that games can't force players to watch ads, nor especially reward players for doing so.

Valve has created a dedicated page describing that in-game ads or ad-based revenue models are not allowed in Steam games. ...

Microsoft has announced that Game Assist ... also made a number of improvements to the browser experience and added support for some extensions like ad blockers," Devereux added.