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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How do you know this is not performed on a separate worker thread?
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It is CTray::MainThreadProc (taskbar thread)