Brave is just a rebranded Chrome. By using it you’re still endorsing Google’s control of the web.
As someone who has been using brace since it was first announced and very tightly coupled to the BAT crypto token I must say it is much less effective nowadays.
I often still see a load of ads and also regularly have to turn off the shields for some sites.
I never have to turn off shields - on one hand the number of times I've had to do that.
Maybe I have something additional installed I don't know.