diff --git a/contrib/windows-install/setup-weboob.bat b/contrib/windows-install/setup-weboob.bat
index 3479111fc1b3c138833bbeb0cd7033ebd1de4689..3fd043afc3b744f91741b9df81de47fa7a452933 100644
--- a/contrib/windows-install/setup-weboob.bat
+++ b/contrib/windows-install/setup-weboob.bat
@@ -142,9 +142,6 @@ echo.
 echo -- html2text
 %PythonPath%Scripts\easy_install.exe html2text || goto :InstallFailed
 echo.
-echo -- mechanize
-%PythonPath%Scripts\easy_install.exe mechanize || goto :InstallFailed
-echo.
 echo -- google-api-python-client
 %PythonPath%Scripts\easy_install.exe google-api-python-client || goto :InstallFailed
 echo.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 138cb944623dfde86eb841557631913ed65b7653..08bbaf5c202c2701a6711c05f57cf3607ca93159 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -149,7 +149,6 @@ def install_weboob(qt, xdg):
         'six',
         'unidecode',
         'Pillow',
-        'mechanize; python_version < "3.0"',
         'futures; python_version < "3.2"',
     ]
 
diff --git a/weboob/tools/newsfeed.py b/weboob/tools/newsfeed.py
index cc5bbebfb542a0189fb9f2f7510dab09b101c662..9533bc30352d2f9c97c3de1737955b63d3de5143 100644
--- a/weboob/tools/newsfeed.py
+++ b/weboob/tools/newsfeed.py
@@ -24,12 +24,6 @@
 except ImportError:
     raise ImportError('Please install python-feedparser')
 
-if '5.1' > feedparser.__version__ >= '5.0':
-    # feedparser 5.0.x replaces this regexp on sgmllib
-    # and mechanize < 0.2 fails with malformed pages.
-    import sgmllib
-    import re
-    sgmllib.endbracket = re.compile('[<>]')
 
 __all__ = ['Entry', 'Newsfeed']