Easy News Now Ads and Redirects - How to remove

Easy News Now is a news-focused browser extension that also happens to flood its users with ads and unwanted redirects. It is ad-supported and it is quite aggressive with the ads that it shows. Besides advertising, Easy News Now also collects user data and uses it to enhance the ads that it displays.

If you are not happy with Easy News Now, you can uninstall it and remove it from your browser. It may use unusual tactics to cling to the browser and stop itself from being removed, but this is not unsolvable.

Easy News Now in short:

Classification	Browser hijacker, adware.
How Easy News Now affects web browsers	It injects ads into webpages and it redirects to unexpected sites, it collects browsing history and can share it with advertisers.
How browser hijackers get installed	They’re advertised on the internet, they come embedded in the installers of other programs.
How to remove Easy News Now	Uninstall unwanted browser extensions, find and remove malware (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, etc.).

What does Easy News Now do?

Advertise in the browser

Easy News Now is a browser extension – a mini-program that gets installed on your browser and adds features or changes settings.

In the case of Easy News Now, it displays advertisements on your screen, shows surveys, and redirects to unexpected sites. It also displays a banner on almost every site that covers up the content of those sites if it isn’t closed. Very annoying and not helpful at all.

In theory, Easy News Now is supposed to deliver breaking news in a few different categories. It does also do this and if you visit the Easy News Now website – Easynewsnow.com – it shows various topical news articles just as you would expect.

Still, Easy News Now is also interfering with your web searches, opening unwanted sites, and injecting advertisements.

On the Chrome web store, the site where the Easy News Now extension can be installed, there is only a handful of reviews for Easy News Now, but they’re all very negative. Their writers say that they didn’t mean to install the extension and that it causes redirects and is hard to get rid of.

Collect information about users

Easy News Now collects information about your location, some technical data, and also which websites you visit and which ads you click on.

According to Easy News Now’s privacy policy, this information may be used for advertising purposes.

We may share your Information with third party advertising networks and advertisers to help deliver Third Party Ads to you and to improve the relevancy of such Third Party Ads.

To be fair, Easy News Now does warn in its description that it’s supported by “promotions and deals presented to you”. Still, it’s easy to miss, and the ads leading to the web store don’t make this disclaimer very visible.

This sort of thing can also be a little dangerous. If your browsing history is sold to some data company, it may reveal things that are private to people who have no right to know them.

How to remove Easy News Now

Avoid browser hijackers

Before installing a browser extension, you should consider if you can trust it. Easy News Now has a few red flags that make it suspicious:

• Over a hundred thousand users but very few reviews. Considering that some of the reviewers mentioned that they didn’t intentionally install Easy News Now, it’s possible that many “users” of the extension are still unaware.
• Permission to read and change your data on all the websites you visit. This very powerful permission allows browser extensions to see and change the content of all the webpages that you open, such as what you’re typing in a password field. Be very careful of extensions that ask for this, especially when they do not even explain why they ask for certain permissions.
• Its privacy policy. It is always wise to skim through the privacy policy of each extension that you wish to install and see what information is collected and what it can be used for. Easy News Now collects data about your browsing history and your interactions with advertisements – it is all laid out in its privacy policy.

Of course, there’s nothing you can do if Easy News Now sneaks in uninvited. In that case, though, make sure to check your computer for other malware that might have also infected your device.

For instance, CouponRockstar, GlobalMovieSearch, PackTrackPlus, and other add-ons are similar to Easy News Now and they spread in similar ways.

Remove Easy News Now

Scan your computer for malware with antivirus programs, like Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others. This will help you detect and remove malicious extensions and other programs.

Uninstall Easy News Now like you would a browser extension (the instructions can be found below).

If Easy News Now returns after being removed, try disabling syncing for extensions.

If Easy News Now can’t be removed because the Remove button doesn’t work, then check our article on the misuse of Enterprise policy. Some malicious extensions hijack web browsers so that they’re “Controlled by an Organization” and certain extensions cannot be removed normally. They can still be removed, but the instructions are a bit more complicated.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Restore browser settings

TopHow To remove Easy News Now Ads and Redirects from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Easy News Now Ads and Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Easy News Now Ads and Redirects from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Easy News Now Ads and Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Easy News Now Ads and Redirects from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Easy News Now Ads and Redirects related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Easy News Now Ads and Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.