I’ve been receiving many questions and complaints lately about popup ads littering the text on storiesonline and finestories. Even a couple of reports about outright graphical ads on the site.
Let me make something clear: storiesonline and finestories don’t serve, host or link to ads.
These ads are typically served by a malware-style browser extensions. Firefox, Chrome and IE have such extensions.
The easiest way to verify this is to turn off all the browser extension that you have and see the ads vanish.
To identify the offending extension, turn extensions back on one at a time. When the ads come back, the last extension activated is the culprit.