Martin Splitt from Google said Google may decide to one day drop support reading the content within the noscript tag for images. He said Google currently does not support it for anything but images, but it may decide to stop supporting it as well for images.

Martin said this at the 13:09 mark into this video. He ended by being super clear, he said “at this time of recording today, April 8, 2020, as far as I’m aware we are still supporting the noscript workaround for images. But that’s specifically for images it does not work for the other things.” He also said he “would not use the noscript” because Google may decide to stop supporting it at some point in the future.

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Last time we covered this, we were a bit confused by the communication around this. I thought Google stopped supporting it completely but then they said it was supported for images.

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