Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back again
This is partly what weboob (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;weboob.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;weboob.org</a>) wants to solve, or at least work around. Its goal is to pull the web out of browsers (hence the name):<p>- each website is handled by a module that does all the scraping, or uses the api if needed<p>- each module provides one or more capabilities, such as &quot;list an account transactions&quot; (typically for your bank or your mobile provider) or &quot;receive and send messages&quot; (such as HN or reddit or tinder)<p>- applications plug into those capabilities and give the user functionalities, regardless of the website. You can list the schedule for your bus just as well as the schedule for carpoolings.<p>One of the applications is actually a daemon with the capability to send and receive messages (with threading and all) and sends messages to the email adress of your choice; you can also configure it as an smtp mta, which means you can use any mail client and interact with all your discussion websites without ever opening the browser.<p>Obviously this is not a perfect solution for OP&#x27;s problems, but it seems to me it&#x27;s going in the right direction. Oh and it doesn&#x27;t stop at websites; I use it for sending RSS feeds to my email in the background.