It's not just initialization, News & Interests operation is also synchronous, locking up UI for web I/O.🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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News & Interests initialization asks web server synchronously. 
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Good lord, as if anyone would ever use it (as with any taskbar additions they tried since Windows Vista, btw when will they stop trying?), but it also bugs out Explorer. Just sweet.
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How do you know this is not performed on a separate worker thread?
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