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No means no right? Apparently not to some companies. I've recently become aware of several different things on the computer and internet that when you say "no" it will just do it anyway. I'm sure everyone has experienced websites that are actually ads that when you try to leave a pop up box will come up and ask "Are you sure you want to leave?" This is where it all started for me, of course I want to leave! I hit the X didn't I? If your stupid ad was really that important to me I would have clicked on more things than just the X at the top you jerks. Unfortunately at work I deal with this because of some ads we run. I won't go into too much detail but seriously I don't like things like that. At the same time, if that was the worst of it here at work I probably wouldn't even complain. Let me tell you what is really starting to make me mad.

Instant messengers were the coolest thing back in the day. MSN and Yahoo were awesome. Since high school though no one really needed them anymore plus facebook came and killed them which is AOK with me because facebook is better anyway. In order to try and get in contact with someone I had met on my mission all I had from them was a yahoo account. I had seen them use the messenger one day when we went to visit them so I thought "hey maybe I could surprise them and try to contact them that way." So I downloaded Yahoo messenger and when it was finished it had two little check boxes that asked if 1. I wanted to install the Yahoo toolbar and 2. If I wanted to make Yahoo my homepage. So of course I clicked no for both of them, I had my internet set up the way I liked it, but after the installation of the program I opened the internet browser and what did I see? Yahoo home page and a huge annoying toolbar. not only that but all of my searches were changed to yahoo's search engine. Seriously Yahoo? This is why I hate you. This was quite a long time ago about two years ago and I still can't change my url bar search engine back to Google in my Firefox.

This brings me to what really makes me mad. My most recent "but I said no!" fiasco. We are going to go back to my job for this one. I call people that fill out forms online that want to go to school. Simple enough, and it seems nice because the people I call are requesting the information. Yeah that's what I thought too. We recently got a new lead provider that sells the leads for cheap to the company and I soon found out why. over 2/3rds of the people I talk to say they didn't actually hit submit but cancelled out before anything submitted. Now if this was the occasional thing I would just think "yeah right you're an idiot just hold yourself accountable for filling out the stupid form." However, since it's so often that people say that I know something is wrong. Apparently they are correct. Without hitting submit their information is sent to us as if they want to go to school so we call them. This drives me crazy. What happened to "no means no?" When did it become "you said no but I'll do it anyway."? Where have our morals gone?

Don't worry, no still means no to me.

To prove a point I downloaded Yahoo messenger to my work computer. Note that the yahoo toolbar is unchecked  also the homepage is unchecked

Oh what's this? I open IE and bam Yahoo is the homepage. At least  it didn't just add the toolbar this time, but clearly it downloaded when I said no.

The only way to uninstall the program and the toolbar is to go to control panel and uninstall programs. (this is mainly to show that the toolbar was in fact downloaded without my permission.)