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Paid services have consolidated to a great degree. But I’ve been a long time Easynews subscriber.
They have decent retention, good completion, and are johnny-on-the-spot re. DMCA requests.
Their real claim to fame is an easy to use browser based front end, so no third party client hassles and it works on mobile.
That said, MUCH has changed since the 90s, i.e. encrypted posts, the USENET hierarchy is largely broken and good luck finding any current text discussion (looking at you, Adobe, ya skeevy fucks).
Should you want more, this is a good guide. https://www.cogipas.com/how-to-use-usenet/
GL&HF
Is Usenet always that expensive? Their recommended plan is $30 per month with a discount for the first three months. And the cheapest one is $10/month but that only gets you 20GB...
I'm not really a pirate so I don't know much about paid pirating services. But I'm pretty sure I could get Netflix and Disney+ for that kind of money. Is Usenet access really worth that much?
So you could get 2 streaming services which would make you miss out on the content available on the other 200+ other streaming services out there.
With Usenet you can get content from all of them.
Eweka is cheaper https://www.eweka.nl/en/landing/unlimited-usenet-special € 5,99/mo for a year
And here's a deal for easynews. https://signup.easynews.com/checkout/unlimited-special-deal/ $6 a month for a year
Haha, since Google searches are increasingly garbage, I asked Chat GPT about USENET and Eweka was one of the recommended providers :)
I use eweka and thundernews as backup. I rarely need thundernews. It only tries that one of eweka is missing what I'm looking for.