You can now withdraw BATs earned from ads after verifying your wallet with Uphold
However, brave browser's users whom want to get their BATs, have to do and surpass KYCs. Honestly I have never had good feelings with KYCs, because we all don't know what will happen, especially with our identities. Facebook can leak their users data, so what if Brave browser leaks their users data (that they collect from KYCs)?
This is due to all the device farmings people do in order to earn more. They do have to implement some ways to stop fraud and they implemented what was easy for them. But the users of brave are actually privacy focused and when they are asking for identity, most of them would not provide or some may even stop using the browser as the so called earnings are low and the risk involved in providing the identity is high.