Privacy from 5 PM to 6 AM: Tracking and Transparency Mechanisms in the HbbTV Ecosystem

The following repository contains artifacts for the paper "Privacy from 5 PM to 6 AM: Tracking andTransparency Mechanisms in the HbbTV Ecosystem" submitted to the 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2025).

Repository Structure

• 01_Figures contains all figures used in the paper.

• 02_Measurement_Data hosts the collected measurement data, excluding screenshots, both raw (and processed, available as a ~3 GB ZIP archive).

• 03_Code contains the entire data processing and evaluation pipeline, including all the SQL statements.

• 04_Plots_and_Statistics provides two notebooks for generating plots and calculating statistics, as presented in our paper.

• 05_Framework provides all necessary data for the measurement framework.

Please note, that we will not provide screenshots due to copyrights issues.

If you want to use our artifact, you can cite our paper:

@article{,
  title = {Tracking and Transparency Mechanisms in the HbbTV Ecosystem},
  author = {Christian Böttger (Institute for Internet Security; Westphalian University of Applied Sciences),
  Henry Hosseini (Institute for Internet Security; Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, University Muenster),
  Christine Utz (Radboud University),
  Nurullah Demir (Institute for Internet Security; Westphalian University of Applied Sciences), 
  Jan Hörnemann (AWARE7 GmbH), 
  Christian Wressnegger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology),
  Thomas Hupperich (University Muenster),
  Norbert Pohlmann (Institute for Internet Security; Westphalian University of Applied Sciences), 
  Matteo Grosse-Kampmann (Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences and AWARE7 GmbH), 
  Tobias Urban (Institute for Internet Security; Westphalian University of Applied Sciences)},
  journal = {Dependable Systems and Networks},
  volume = {2025}, 
  year ={2025},
  series = {DSN~'25}, 
  doi = {}
  url= {}
}

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