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For phone use, this online authentication might be almost OK. I know that my phone has internet connection 99% of the time. If not via WiFi, then via cellular data.
My tablet is a different story. It is WiFi only. And I don't usually log it in to whatever public WiFi I find around me. And for security reasons, when logging in to public WiFi, I always have it connect to my VPN server running at home. That would be a bit of a hassle to go through every time I want to read a few minutes of a book when I don't have my Kindle.
So Moon+'s authentication would probably never be noticed on my phone, but would potentially be a problem on my tablet. My take is that since I rarely use Moon+ - only when I don't have a better option (my Kindle) with me - then for those infrequent times I would rather put up with whatever ads the free version hands me than potentially end up stuck not being able to read due to authentication issues. Even though I only have probably a 1% chance of running into those authentication issues on my phone. It would be different if I routinely wandered outside of cell coverage areas. But I rarely do that. And when I do, it's usually a planned/known event, and for those, I will have taken my Kindle (and battery power banks) with me anyways. So I guess in the end, I would probably be happy enough with the paid version. But I don't like the potential of an outage simply on principle - I just think that's poor design, even if it only infrequently happens.
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