diff --git a/.env.sample b/.env.sample
index 0d8d23a..7d19931 100644
--- a/.env.sample
+++ b/.env.sample
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ FORCE_HTTPS=true
 
 # Have the installation check for updates by sending anonymized statistics to
 # the maintainers
-ENABLE_UPDATES=true
+ENABLE_UPDATES=false
 
 # How many processes should be spawned. As a reasonable rule divide your servers
 # available memory by 512 for a rough estimate