diff --git a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
index a8e5b23bf..01eea66c9 100644
--- a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
@@ -884,6 +884,10 @@ Meta tags within these tags are ignored.
    The default value of :setting:`METAREFRESH_IGNORE_TAGS` changed from
    ``['script', 'noscript']`` to ``[]``.
 
+.. versionchanged:: VERSION
+   The default value of :setting:`METAREFRESH_IGNORE_TAGS` changed from
+   ``[]`` to ``['noscript']``.
+
 .. setting:: METAREFRESH_MAXDELAY
 
 METAREFRESH_MAXDELAY
diff --git a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
index fa06e5ee8..7e77884f6 100644
--- a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
+++ b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ MEMUSAGE_NOTIFY_MAIL = []
 MEMUSAGE_WARNING_MB = 0
 
 METAREFRESH_ENABLED = True
-METAREFRESH_IGNORE_TAGS = []
+METAREFRESH_IGNORE_TAGS = ["noscript"]
 METAREFRESH_MAXDELAY = 100
 
 NEWSPIDER_MODULE = ""
diff --git a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py
index 10b8ca9af..83ff25982 100644
--- a/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py
+++ b/tests/test_downloadermiddleware_redirect.py
@@ -395,9 +395,8 @@ class MetaRefreshMiddlewareTest(unittest.TestCase):
             """content="0;URL='http://example.org/newpage'"></noscript>"""
         )
         rsp = HtmlResponse(req.url, body=body.encode())
-        req2 = self.mw.process_response(req, rsp, self.spider)
-        assert isinstance(req2, Request)
-        self.assertEqual(req2.url, "http://example.org/newpage")
+        response = self.mw.process_response(req, rsp, self.spider)
+        assert isinstance(response, Response)
 
     def test_ignore_tags_1_x_list(self):
         """Test that Scrapy 1.x behavior remains possible"""