“IPFS is an exciting technology that can help content creators distribute content without high bandwidth costs, while taking advantage of data deduplication and data replication.”
Brave now understands ipfs:// links and will offer to run a local node. By default it still loads them through a public HTTP gateway, which is just a server with extra steps. The whole point of IPFS is that nobody in the middle can take it down. A gateway is somebody in the middle.