diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/platform/browser/index.ts b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/platform/browser/index.ts
index abf8f2bdfe..4ad5c8f063 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/platform/browser/index.ts
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/platform/browser/index.ts
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@
  */
 
 export { InstrumentationBase } from './instrumentation';
-export { normalize } from './throwing-normalize';
+export { normalize } from './noop-normalize';
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/platform/browser/throwing-normalize.ts b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/platform/browser/noop-normalize.ts
similarity index 63%
rename from experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/platform/browser/throwing-normalize.ts
rename to experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/platform/browser/noop-normalize.ts
index afd314552d..7b8aa40000 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/platform/browser/throwing-normalize.ts
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/src/platform/browser/noop-normalize.ts
@@ -14,16 +14,22 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
+import { diag } from '@opentelemetry/api';
+
 /**
  * Placeholder normalize function to replace the node variant in browser runtimes,
- * this should never be called and will throw if it is called.
+ * this should never be called and will perform a no-op and warn if it is called regardless.
  *
  * This is a workaround to fix https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/issues/4373 until the instrumentation
  * package can be made node-only.
  *
- * @param _path unused input path
+ * @param path input path
+ * @return unmodified path
  * @internal
  */
-export function normalize(_path: string): string {
-  throw new Error('Not implemented');
+export function normalize(path: string): string {
+  diag.warn(
+    'Path normalization is not implemented for this platform. To silence this warning, ensure no node-specific instrumentations are loaded, and node-specific types (e.g. InstrumentationNodeModuleFile), are not used in a browser context)'
+  );
+  return path;
 }
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/test/browser/throwing-normalize.test.ts b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/test/browser/noop-normalize.test.ts
similarity index 81%
rename from experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/test/browser/throwing-normalize.test.ts
rename to experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/test/browser/noop-normalize.test.ts
index 08be79cc49..aedcb975e7 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/test/browser/throwing-normalize.test.ts
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation/test/browser/noop-normalize.test.ts
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 import * as assert from 'assert';
 import { normalize } from '../../src/platform/browser';
 
-describe('throwing-normalize', () => {
-  assert.throws(() => {
-    normalize('foo');
+describe('noop-normalize', function () {
+  it('should not normalize input', function () {
+    assert.strictEqual(normalize('/tmp/foo/../bar'), '/tmp/foo/../bar');
   });
 });