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Does .metadata_never_index work for keeping folders out of Spotlight in Catalina?

In older releases of macOS one could create .metadata_never_index in any folder to prevent it and its children from being indexed. This seems to have stopped working at some point. Does this or another similar method work in Catalina and Mojave?

Note: I am not interested in adding .noindex to file/folder names.