i am located in the USA but on occasion may use a vpn. I have enabled brave ads and setup the wallet with uphold but I have no option to enable brave ads and am currently not getting any ads or BAT.
With newer versions of the Brave Browser the Brave Rewards toggle has been deprecated with the Ads toggle replacing it’s functionality. So older Brave versions have two toggles (Brave Rewards + Ads) while the newer versions have a single toggle (Ads).
Mine has shown 1.000 BAT for quite some time, with no ads for months. On mobile I get ads, but it has shown 0.035 BAT for at least weeks, which is not remotely close to what I would normally get from these ads.