# Secure media uploads expire

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/secure-media-uploads-expire/140894>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/secure-media-uploads-expire/140894 "2020-02-06T17:21:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/secure-media-uploads-expire/140894/5 "2020-02-06T22:39:32Z")

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> [@RGJ](#):
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> What do you mean by 'the default value of `preload` ?

If you have a `<audio>` or `<video>` tag, setting an attribute of `preload=auto` on it will hint the browser to download it all on page load, so you wouldn’t have this problem with the signed s3 url expiring.

As with those things always go, sites started to abuse this attribute and it isn’t always blindly followed anymore, but is a hint the browser will consider.

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