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[dylanvee]

function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {...}

How clever of them.

[riffraff → dylanvee]

fwiw, I was actually annoyed that the function does not take that many arguments, if I am not missing something.

[tach → riffraff]

The extra arguments are used as identifiers within the function. It's a common trick to save a few bytes since you get function scoped vars without needing the "var" keyword.

[riffraff → tach]

yes but it's not needed in this case, they could have reused existing variables and since clarity is not a goal (given e.g. "s=document") it wouldn't be an issue.