It uses end-to-end encryption keys to verify the identity of the person you're messaging with. Going to be fun when the UK Government formally bans E2EE outright and that app can't work (as well as Meta, Signal et al leaving the UK market).
So, you're actually verifying nothing, and almost certainly using compromised keys that can be easily reversed later.
Unless "verifying the identity" involves you and the other person PHYSICALLY exchanging key material that you DIRECTLY generated between yourselves in person you do NOT have anything like E2EE.
It uses end-to-end encryption keys to verify the identity of the person you're messaging with. Going to be fun when the UK Government formally bans E2EE outright and that app can't work (as well as Meta, Signal et al leaving the UK market).
Before I remove it from mine, will I still be able to text people afterward?
Probably yes, but I have to be sure.
Yes
"verify the identity."
Yea, and who provides the identity? Google?
So, you're actually verifying nothing, and almost certainly using compromised keys that can be easily reversed later.
Unless "verifying the identity" involves you and the other person PHYSICALLY exchanging key material that you DIRECTLY generated between yourselves in person you do NOT have anything like E2EE.
It's a fucking sham.