diff --git a/pylintrc b/pylintrc
index 699686e16..2cdd6321e 100644
--- a/pylintrc
+++ b/pylintrc
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ disable=abstract-method,
         unused-private-member,
         unused-variable,
         unused-wildcard-import,
+        use-implicit-booleaness-not-comparison,
         used-before-assignment,
         useless-object-inheritance,  # Required for Python 2 support
         useless-return,
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index e4514f512..2031a2d92 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ commands =
 basepython = python3
 deps =
     {[testenv:extra-deps]deps}
-    pylint
+    pylint==2.12.1
 commands =
     pylint conftest.py docs extras scrapy setup.py tests