diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 707e33257..41a6f52ef 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -310,7 +310,6 @@
     "typedoc-plugin-missing-exports": "^2.0.0",
     "typescript": "^5.1.6",
     "typescript-docs-verifier": "^2.5.0",
-    "update-notifier": "^7.0.0",
     "wherearewe": "^2.0.1",
     "yargs": "^17.1.1",
     "yargs-parser": "^21.1.1"
@@ -331,7 +330,6 @@
     "@types/proper-lockfile": "^4.1.1",
     "@types/semver": "^7.3.4",
     "@types/strong-log-transformer": "^1.0.2",
-    "@types/update-notifier": "^6.0.1",
     "@types/yargs": "^17.0.0",
     "electron": "^27.0.2",
     "uint8arrays": "^5.0.1",
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index b576a25e5..c5c3db23e 100755
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 /* eslint-disable no-console */
 
 import { readPackageUpSync } from 'read-pkg-up'
-import updateNotifier from 'update-notifier'
 import yargs from 'yargs'
 import { hideBin } from 'yargs/helpers'
 import buildCmd from './cmds/build.js'
@@ -46,10 +45,6 @@ async function main () {
     throw new Error('Could not read package.json')
   }
 
-  updateNotifier({
-    pkg: pkg.packageJson
-  }).notify()
-
   const userConfig = await loadUserConfig()
 
   const res = yargs(hideBin(process.argv))