diff --git a/src/storages/EventsDB.ts b/src/storages/EventsDB.ts
index 1265a98b..abf076c7 100644
--- a/src/storages/EventsDB.ts
+++ b/src/storages/EventsDB.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import { nip27 } from 'nostr-tools';
 
 import { Conf } from '@/config.ts';
 import { DittoTables } from '@/db/DittoTables.ts';
-import { normalizeFilters } from '@/filter.ts';
 import { dbEventCounter, dbQueryCounter } from '@/metrics.ts';
 import { RelayError } from '@/RelayError.ts';
 import { purifyEvent } from '@/storages/hydrate.ts';
@@ -251,7 +250,7 @@ class EventsDB implements NStore {
 
   /** Converts filters to more performant, simpler filters that are better for SQLite. */
   async expandFilters(filters: NostrFilter[]): Promise<NostrFilter[]> {
-    filters = normalizeFilters(structuredClone(filters));
+    filters = structuredClone(filters);
 
     for (const filter of filters) {
       if (filter.search) {
@@ -288,42 +287,10 @@ class EventsDB implements NStore {
         // If this results in an empty kinds array, NDatabase will remove the filter before querying and return no results.
         filter.kinds = filter.kinds.filter((kind) => !NKinds.ephemeral(kind));
       }
-
-      // Convert tag filters into `ids` filter for performance reasons.
-      const tagEntries = Object.entries(filter).filter(EventsDB.isTagEntry);
-      if (tagEntries.length) {
-        const tagIds: string[] = await tagEntries
-          .map(([key, value]) =>
-            this.kysely
-              .selectFrom('nostr_tags')
-              .select('event_id')
-              .distinct()
-              .where('name', '=', key.replace(/^#/, ''))
-              .where('value', 'in', value)
-          )
-          .reduce((result, query) => result.intersect(query))
-          .execute()
-          .then((rows) => rows.map(({ event_id }) => event_id));
-
-        if (tagIds.length) {
-          filter.ids = filter.ids ?? [];
-          filter.ids.push(...tagIds);
-        }
-
-        for (const [key] of tagEntries) {
-          delete filter[key];
-        }
-      }
     }
 
     return filters;
   }
-
-  /** Check if the object entry is a valid tag filter. */
-  private static isTagEntry(entry: [string, unknown]): entry is [`#${string}`, string[]] {
-    const [key, value] = entry;
-    return key.startsWith('#') && Array.isArray(value);
-  }
 }
 
 export { EventsDB };