Short for "Apple Silicon", the marketing name for Apple's own series of ARM CPUs used in Macs since 2020.
They do have a lot of very weird abbreviations, like in the getting-started/install page there are options for: MacOS (Intel/AMD) (...=> amd macs? I guess hackintosh?), Linux AMD (no Intel this time?)
I get they are abbreviating amd64 but still... I've never seen it done like this...
It's approximately like shortening "Processor made by Apple" to "Processor". The important bit is gone.
Fine.
“Mac (Apple)”
This is like shortening github to git
not really, since there's the extra context of "Mac" right before it, so it's easier to know what it's about...
Not only that, when using Firefox (Chrome seems fine), it's selected by default on Windows and Linux.
FF unfortunately does not support detecting the OS reliably...
Even with "strict" tracking prevention Linux is still in the user agent string. That's been very reliably IME.
"Linux x86_64" is present on my UA on Linux, and "Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64" on Windows. Probably a bug or just untested on Firefox. Just a bit annoying.
I'll add that this is the first site that misdetects anything like that.
Is it because of tracking protection/fingerprinting protection being on by default?