diff --git a/core/modules/filters.js b/core/modules/filters.js
index 57009afad..7c8cb21ba 100644
--- a/core/modules/filters.js
+++ b/core/modules/filters.js
@@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ exports.getFilterRunPrefixes = function() {
 	return this.filterRunPrefixes;
 }
 
-exports.filterTiddlers = function(filterString,widget,source,options) {
-	var fn = this.compileFilter(filterString,options);
+exports.filterTiddlers = function(filterString,widget,source) {
+	var fn = this.compileFilter(filterString);
 	try {
 		const fnResult = fn.call(this,source,widget);
 		return fnResult;
@@ -244,11 +244,8 @@ exports.filterTiddlers = function(filterString,widget,source,options) {
 Compile a filter into a function with the signature fn(source,widget) where:
 source: an iterator function for the source tiddlers, called source(iterator), where iterator is called as iterator(tiddler,title)
 widget: an optional widget node for retrieving the current tiddler etc.
-options: optional hashmap of options
-	options.defaultFilterRunPrefix: the default filter run prefix to use when none is specified
 */
-exports.compileFilter = function(filterString,options) {
-	var defaultFilterRunPrefix = options?.defaultFilterRunPrefix || "or";
+exports.compileFilter = function(filterString) {
 	if(!this.filterCache) {
 		this.filterCache = Object.create(null);
 		this.filterCacheCount = 0;
@@ -357,7 +354,7 @@ exports.compileFilter = function(filterString,options) {
 			var options = {wiki: self, suffixes: operation.suffixes || []};
 			switch(operation.prefix || "") {
 				case "": // No prefix means that the operation is unioned into the result
-					return filterRunPrefixes[defaultFilterRunPrefix](operationSubFunction, options);
+					return filterRunPrefixes["or"](operationSubFunction, options);
 				case "=": // The results of the operation are pushed into the result without deduplication
 					return filterRunPrefixes["all"](operationSubFunction, options);
 				case "-": // The results of this operation are removed from the main result
diff --git a/core/modules/filters/subfilter.js b/core/modules/filters/subfilter.js
index c7853798e..5e35f7cd1 100644
--- a/core/modules/filters/subfilter.js
+++ b/core/modules/filters/subfilter.js
@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@ Filter operator returning its operand evaluated as a filter
 Export our filter function
 */
 exports.subfilter = function(source,operator,options) {
-	var suffixes = operator.suffixes || [],
-		defaultFilterRunPrefix = (suffixes[0] || [])[0] || "or";
-	var list = options.wiki.filterTiddlers(operator.operand,options.widget,source,{defaultFilterRunPrefix});
+	var list = options.wiki.filterTiddlers(operator.operand,options.widget,source);
 	if(operator.prefix === "!") {
 		var results = [];
 		source(function(tiddler,title) {