Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners -Understanding IP and Proxy

The video tutorial explains how URLs are used to identify servers and how IP addresses help servers identify clients. It also discusses the concept of proxies, which are used to mask a client's identity by sending requests through another device, thus maintaining anonymity.

Explain the analogy of a unique ID in relation to devices in a network.

Why might a user want to mask their identity when sending a request to a server?