diff --git a/_config/filters.js b/_config/filters.js
index 1ecbb27..da669b8 100644
--- a/_config/filters.js
+++ b/_config/filters.js
@@ -34,35 +34,27 @@ module.exports = function (eleventyConfig, { TIME_ZONE, defaultLanguage }) {
         return filtered;
     });
 
-    // takes a collection or all collections and returns only the tags no matched
-    // works with arrays and key-objects so may repurpose under different name
-    eleventyConfig.addFilter("exclude_tags", function (collection, ...tagsToExclude) {
-        if (!collection || typeof collection !== "object") {
-            console.warn("[exclude_tags] Invalid collection input:", collection);
-            return collection;
+    // takes all collections and returns only the tags not matched
+    // key-objects so may repurpose under different name
+    eleventyConfig.addFilter("exclude_collections", function (collections, ...keysToExclude) {
+        if (!collections || typeof collections !== "object") {
+            console.warn("[exclude_collections] Invalid collections input:", collections);
+            return collections;
         }
 
-        // handle both array and key-value object inputs
-        const items = Array.isArray(collection) ? collection : Object.values(collection);
-
-        // filter out items where any of the tagsToExclude are in item.data.tags
-        const filtered = items.filter(item => {
-            const itemTags = item.data && item.data.tags ? item.data.tags : [];
-            return !tagsToExclude.some(tag => itemTags.includes(tag));
+        const result = {};
+        Object.keys(collections).forEach(key => {
+            if (!keysToExclude.includes(key)) {
+                result[key] = collections[key];
+            }
         });
 
-        // if input was a key-value object, reconstruct it
-        if (!Array.isArray(collection)) {
-            const result = {};
-            Object.keys(collection).forEach(key => {
-                if (filtered.includes(collection[key])) {
-                    result[key] = collection[key];
-                }
-            });
-            return result;
+        if (process.env.LOCALE_URL_DEBUG === "1" || process.env.LOCALE_URL_DEBUG === "true") {
+            console.warn("[excludeCollections] Excluded keys:", keysToExclude);
+            console.warn("[excludeCollections] Resulting keys:", Object.keys(result));
         }
 
-        return filtered;
+        return result;
     });
 
     const LOCALE_URL_DEBUG = process.env.LOCALE_URL_DEBUG === "1" || process.env.LOCALE_URL_DEBUG === "true";