I am also experiencing the same problem since 2 days ago.
I have narrowed the problem down to “Brave Ad Block”. Some filters, or selecting all of them at once, cause this behavior.
The only solution I found for this, is to manually change the state of the selected filters in the settings file “Local State”.
To do this navigate to: C:\Users<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data and locate the file “Local State”. Open the file with notepad and at about the beginning you will find:
“brave”:{“ad_block”:{
a little further down you will find:
“regional_filters”:
followed by the ID of each filter and it’s state (true or false). What I did is used the replace function in notepad and changed the state of each filter to false. Just be mindful to not overdo it and start changing settings with the replace function. For me the Adlists go up to the point where it states the darkmode status.
To whoever mod it may concern: This was not triggered by a settings change. It was probably triggered by an auto-update in the weekend and I can still reproduce it up to this time by enabling all adlists.
I hope this helped,
Thank you