[rektide]

To each their own. I'm not interested in systematic scraping. I just want to take back, take home the web experience I've had, and be able to digest and work with it latter. The things that I want to work with are the sights and experiences I've had. Client side is perfect.

Second, if I was trying to scrape, I'd rather do scraping with WebDriver than anything else, and injecting some client side scraping tools and using WebDriver as a driver, not a driver/scraper sounds remarkably better.

I see no reason to ever not use a browser to consume html content.

[rektide]

For example, favoriting a tweet on twitter is lossy: there's no after-the-fact scraping I can do to know where I was, what time it was when I favorited the thing.

If we want to Publish Everywhere Syndicate to Own Site (#IndieWeb dubs this PESOS), if we want to have our own experiences we can talk about, client side is the way to go.