Brave no longer supports local node support and the ipfs:// scheme, as of aug 22, 2024. Better update the text in this article.
See IPFS Support in Brave | Brave and h-t-t-p-s://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/37735
regards
(PS i had to mangle the second link a bit since new users are apparently not allowed to post more than one link :D. DS.)