Easynews Reviews 1,199

Not to be trusted they send messages offering discounted price when you submit cancelation but the offer is even more than normal promotions on their website. They then trick you with further discounts only to get you to join their sister site newshosting

Date of experience: May 16, 2025

Been a user for years now. Really love the service they provide and hope to continue with it

Date of experience: April 29, 2025

What a wonderful service!

I have used it for years. Makes usenet accessible to everyone with its immensely powerful index and search features. I rely solely on the internal index, finding what I need without external indexers.

The pricing is nothing short of fantastic, speeds are great (I suggest testing different regions and ports in settings; I currently find 444 on Europe best), and the support team is fast, personally adapting to your needs, and knowledgeable.

I like to use the older 2.0 interface in advanced mode, as it has more features. I choose the "block layout" mode, which lets me view articles' subject line and file name at a glance. In addition, I use a spam filter to avoid viruses and password-protected results, and tick the "hide duplicates" box in search.

A VPN service with Wireshark support is also included.

In conclusion, as far as I'm concerned, Easynews IS usenet.

I am not affiliated, and my opinions are my own.

Date of experience: April 21, 2025

im using easynews only via browser - so ill focus on this. theres lots of little issues with the beta ui although being the most usable of the 3 interfaces. searching videos by fps doesn't work, it defaults to video on a second search although audio was selected, im still puzzled how to get the advanced search dialog up reliably from results and im never sure if i am in a certain group context with my search, but most importantly theres no cyrilic or other latin characters supported for search terms - everything but ascii is filtered out.

Also quite some new entries are giving 404 - i suspect this could be due to the regional mirrors not being up2speed. regarding speed there's nothing to complain - it's never below 100mbits. ipv4 traffic speed seems to be limited though.
that for free included privado vpn is good enough as well, although the end points are often being detected in netherland.

Date of experience: February 28, 2025

I signed up for a one month trial period but was charged for a year. They do not take phone calls and do not respond to a tickets created on their website. Also, they do not respond to cancellation of the trial period.

Date of experience: February 08, 2025

I have been using EasyNews continuously for almost twenty years now. Never failed to deliver. Retention time is phenomenal. (I am not affiliated with them in any way. Just a happy customer). If you need NNTP, this is the place to go to.

Date of experience: February 28, 2025

Great service. Reliable

Date of experience: February 28, 2025

The speed, indexing etc. is super. The website is not the fanciest. Some may call it outdated, but it gets the job done fast and easy - especially the 2.0 version - I like it. :-)

The VPN client is not the best. Last time I tested, it crashed multiple times when large files is transfered. So I don't use it.

Due to the increased price I had to cancel my unlimited account. It was beeing too expensive for what I used it for.

Update: I have been in contact with support(very fast answering) and we made a deal that is acceptable for me, so I am happy again.

Date of experience: January 26, 2025

you are going to pay 72 bucks to see "Our search servers are under heavy load. Please try again later." for as long as you are on thier site

Date of experience: January 20, 2025

If you signed up for Easynews, you should cancel your billing agreement before they steal your money.
This company signed me up to a lifetime price and then sent me a notice that my "lifetime" price was being increased because they "must make critical updates to our infrastructure. Amid these rising costs and other growing energy and network expenses" and as a result they are nearly doubling the price of my account.

Thankfully I had a limit set on that account and the increased charge failed. A few weeks later they sent me a email with an offer for service that cost less than the amount they were trying to increase my previous account. I suppose they didn't really need to increase prices after all?

I need my money. When you try to steal from me like this, it actually hurts my family.

Date of experience: December 01, 2024

Great service, fast servers.

Date of experience: January 10, 2025

A lot of the content I am looking for is not there. Almost everything from 2021 is gone and I have to use all my other block accounts to get that content. The web browser is not bad, but it is pretty dated and needs updating. Some of the content I am looking for actually shows up as trans adult material instead of what it it supposed to be.

Date of experience: December 06, 2024

There are better options. I signed up at a lifetime discount but after only a year they tried to raise my price by "only $2 per month" but that is $24 increase, which was more than 160% increase. They claimed it was "necessary" because of the increase in costs, but now they are offering me an account at "$1.99/month" but the fine print is that its $24/year (not $1.99) and then it INCREASES to over $70!! They sent me an email that ended up in my spam folder barely two weeks before they tried to raise my price. Not enough notice imo.

This company is shady.

Date of experience: November 12, 2024

Date of experience: December 11, 2024

BEWARE! Scammed me out of my money. Raised my rates without asking. Then my card declined because they raised my rates and I was smart enough to set a max charge amount on it. So I tried to sign up again using one of their special prices I found online, but it would not let me sign up at that price, it said that I was not allowed to do that. Instead it allowed me to sign back up at my old higher price.

I will not use them after this account expires. They are scamming people out of their money

Date of experience: December 14, 2024

They turned off my account for no reason, did not refund me, tried to get me to submit a support ticket to Eweka instead of Easynews, their support ticket system is broken and the button wont click, their web interface is old and almost unusable, the service goes down on a regular basis, what else do you want to know?

Oh, and they tried to raise my rates without notice as well.

Date of experience: December 06, 2024

It's simply Easy! :-)

Date of experience: December 11, 2024

since month's easynews.com dident work good.
newest issue since 2 days: performance is slow as in the early ninties (250kb/min download)

Date of experience: December 01, 2024

Used Easynews for over 10 years.... Spotted an ad indicating new subscribers were receiving a substantial discount in monthly rates.... Going from approximately $13 per month to $2 per month for 15 months and then a slight increase after that.... I emailed "customer service" which is NOT easy... (that's another review, another day...)

I explained the situation to customer service, basically.... "I've been a customer for years, yet you are offering a substantial deal to newbies... I would like the discounted rate.." Never received a response so I canceled my account. I went to the ad to sign up, different email/IP, and now receive "We cant accept your sign up at this time, please try again later.."

I HAVE been trying, for WEEKS..... Most recently when I saw a Black Friday sale... Same sale, same outcome. Won't let me sign up at that price. So, for all I know NO ONE gets the "deal"...? Who knows? Perhaps it's meant to drive traffic to their site...

Point is, they certainly don't reward loyalty. I've already found a different provider.. one that, ironically, doesn't block anything either, it's completely uncensored...!

Date of experience: November 27, 2024

Used to love Easynews, but now they are blocking newsgroups I grabbed from. Won't allow me access to them

I would love to submit a reply. I have tried many times and it doens't actually submit.

Date of experience: February 29, 2024