diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 629cfcf..2103dd7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 ![GitHub go.mod Go version](https://img.shields.io/github/go-mod/go-version/prometheus-community/stackdriver_exporter)
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache_2.0-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0)
 
-A [Prometheus][prometheus] exporter for [Google Stackdriver Monitoring][stackdriver] metrics. It acts as a proxy that requests Stackdriver API for the metric's time-series every time prometheus scrapes it.
+A [Prometheus][prometheus] exporter for [Google Stackdriver Monitoring][stackdriver] metrics. It acts as a proxy that requests Stackdriver API for the metric's time-series everytime prometheus scrapes it.
 
 ## Installation
 
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ stackdriver_exporter \
 
 The `stackdriver_exporter` collects all metrics type prefixes by default.
 
-For advanced uses, the metric prefixes can be filtered by using a repeatable URL param called `collect`. In the Prometheus configuration you can use this syntax under the [scrape config](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#<scrape_config>).
+For advanced uses, the collection can be filtered by using a repeatable URL param called `collect`. In the Prometheus configuration you can use you can use this syntax under the [scrape config](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#<scrape_config>).
 
 
 ```yaml
@@ -177,17 +177,6 @@ params:
   - compute.googleapis.com/instance/disk
 ```
 
-The GCP projects to collect metrics from can also be filtered, using the `project_ids` URL param:
-```yaml
-params:
-  project_ids:
-  - project-a
-  - project-b
-  collect:
-  - compute.googleapis.com/instance/cpu
-  - compute.googleapis.com/instance/disk
-```
-
 ### What to know about Aggregating DELTA Metrics
 
 Treating DELTA Metrics as a gauge produces data which is wildly inaccurate/not very useful (see https://github.com/prometheus-community/stackdriver_exporter/issues/116). However, aggregating the DELTA metrics overtime is not a perfect solution and is intended to produce data which mirrors GCP's data as close as possible. 
diff --git a/stackdriver_exporter.go b/stackdriver_exporter.go
index 3076169..f71c4f4 100644
--- a/stackdriver_exporter.go
+++ b/stackdriver_exporter.go
@@ -180,14 +180,17 @@ type handler struct {
 
 func (h *handler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	collectParams := r.URL.Query()["collect"]
-	projectIDsParam := r.URL.Query()["project_ids"]
+	filters := make(map[string]bool)
+	for _, param := range collectParams {
+		filters[param] = true
+	}
 
-	projectFilters := make(map[string]bool)
-	for _, projID := range projectIDsParam {
-		projectFilters[projID] = true
+	if len(filters) > 0 {
+		h.innerHandler(filters).ServeHTTP(w, r)
+		return
 	}
 
-	h.innerHandler(collectParams, projectFilters).ServeHTTP(w, r)
+	h.handler.ServeHTTP(w, r)
 }
 
 func newHandler(projectIDs []string, metricPrefixes []string, metricExtraFilters []collectors.MetricFilter, m *monitoring.Service, logger log.Logger, additionalGatherer prometheus.Gatherer) *handler {
@@ -200,20 +203,16 @@ func newHandler(projectIDs []string, metricPrefixes []string, metricExtraFilters
 		m:                   m,
 	}
 
-	h.handler = h.innerHandler(nil, nil)
+	h.handler = h.innerHandler(nil)
 	return h
 }
 
-func (h *handler) innerHandler(metricFilters []string, projectFilters map[string]bool) http.Handler {
+func (h *handler) innerHandler(filters map[string]bool) http.Handler {
 	registry := prometheus.NewRegistry()
 
 	for _, project := range h.projectIDs {
-		if len(projectFilters) > 0 && !projectFilters[project] {
-			continue
-		}
-
 		monitoringCollector, err := collectors.NewMonitoringCollector(project, h.m, collectors.MonitoringCollectorOptions{
-			MetricTypePrefixes:        h.filterMetricTypePrefixes(metricFilters),
+			MetricTypePrefixes:        h.filterMetricTypePrefixes(filters),
 			ExtraFilters:              h.metricsExtraFilters,
 			RequestInterval:           *monitoringMetricsInterval,
 			RequestOffset:             *monitoringMetricsOffset,
@@ -244,16 +243,13 @@ func (h *handler) innerHandler(metricFilters []string, projectFilters map[string
 
 // filterMetricTypePrefixes filters the initial list of metric type prefixes, with the ones coming from an individual
 // prometheus collect request.
-func (h *handler) filterMetricTypePrefixes(filters []string) []string {
+func (h *handler) filterMetricTypePrefixes(filters map[string]bool) []string {
 	filteredPrefixes := h.metricsPrefixes
 	if len(filters) > 0 {
 		filteredPrefixes = nil
-		for _, calltimePrefix := range filters {
-			for _, preconfiguredPrefix := range h.metricsPrefixes {
-				if strings.HasPrefix(calltimePrefix, preconfiguredPrefix) {
-					filteredPrefixes = append(filteredPrefixes, calltimePrefix)
-					break
-				}
+		for _, prefix := range h.metricsPrefixes {
+			if filters[prefix] {
+				filteredPrefixes = append(filteredPrefixes, prefix)
 			}
 		}
 	}