After the latest update to Brave (v1.64.109 on March 20, 2024) The brave browser no longer bocks any ads, trackers etc. even with shields up. Looking at brave://components, several of them show “update error”.
Well, I’d say it’s some setting on a firewall, antivirus, or whatever on your computer that’s blocking it. I’d try to look into what you have that might be stopping things.
But otherwise, I guess can refer to someone else who shared the info linked/quoted below: