Why am I getting ads in my terminal?

[joshuajaco]

After a recent maintenance, we started seeing the following in our terminal output:

[dotenv@17.2.1] injecting env (0) from .env -- tip: 📡 auto-backup env with Radar: https://dotenvx.com/radar

We don’t depend on dotenv directly, so we can’t easily use the quiet option without injecting additional config or environment variables throughout our codebase or tooling.

A few concerns:

• This kind of promotional message (especially for a paid product) should not be shown by default.
• Tying debug output (e.g. which .env file was loaded) and ads to the same quiet flag is not a great design. Developers often want to see diagnostic messages without being served marketing content.
• There should be a separate, explicit way to disable these tips entirely.

Please consider separating promotional messages from runtime logs and turning them off by default, or at least providing a dedicated opt-out mechanism.

[motdotla]

You can use DOTENV_CONFIG_QUIET=true to opt-out. https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1720-2025-07-09

You can also just stay on the old version 16. It's ten years mature and stable.

@motdotla