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		reaperducer on Sept 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquire... I'm not a regular Windows users, but I believe Windows has lots of other ways to get people's attention, other than stealing it. Isn't that what the icon tray is for? Or blinking the program in the task bar?

Fatnino on Sept 15, 2022 | [–]

No, when windows pops the admin auth prompt into the background the best and most reliable way to notice is to intuit that such a window should have appeared by now and go looking for it.

stjohnswarts on Sept 15, 2022 | [–]

A lot of people (myself included) hide the task bar. That is a small price to pay to miss a notification though.

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