Can a plugin deactivate itself?

We have a situation where a couple of our longstanding plugins (Google Analytics is one) are currently offering the option to “Activate” them.

This figures, because Google Analytics traffic stopped dead a while back. So it seems as if it did turn itself off. Is this possible?

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Can the plugin’s original author issue an update or something which causes it to go wrong and deactivate?

Or do we have to assume someone deactivated it by mistake?

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  1. As far as I know, a plugin can be deactivated in these conditions:

    • manual deactivation
    • failed plugin upgrade
    • remove or rename the containing folder
    • changing the active plugin list in the database

    Hopefully someone else will come through and add to this if I missed any.