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The Brave browser will no longer provide Google as its default search engine, instead replacing it with Brave Search, its own homegrown search offering, the company behind the browser says.

The companies behind privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo and Norwegian browser Vivaldi have joined the Brave browser chiefs in opposing Google's new experimental ad-targeting technology known as Federated Learning of Cohorts.

The Brave browser will not support Google's experimental new technology for ad targeting, known as Federated Learning of Cohorts, two senior officials from the organisation behind the browser say.

The Brave browser, developed by a company of the same name set up by former Mozilla chief Brendan Eich, is hoping to make its 1.0 release later this year.

I find I can no longer hold my tongue. The forced resignation from his post at Mozilla of CEO Brendan Eich, the inventor of JavaScript and co-founder of Firefox, for his views on gay marriage, goes beyond an affront to the freedom of speech. It is a downright assault on the freedom of thought.

Mozilla co-founder and CEO Brendan Eich, who came under fire this week for donating to a campaign to ban gay marriage in California, has stepped down effective immediately.