Just to be fair, uBlock on Firefox removes it as well. Just to note, that Brave is adding nothing here.

I intended to imply that uBlock Origin was the difference.

The choice of browser just represents what I had available to test with where different results were shown.

Firefox + uBlock Origin = no ads

This isn't an ad, it's a really bad promotion for first-party content. I still see it with uBO on Firefox.

Maybe Brave has extra visual filters that block this specific div?

> promotion for first-party content

The pedant in me says: that's an ad.

It's just one of the rare ones not delivered by a gigantic network, so it's far less likely to be a scam or malware. Still an ad though.

Fair, but it's a category of ad that uBO has a very hard time with.