Deactivation deactivated

This plugin deactivates your ability to deactivate it.

At installation it prompts you to download one of 4 “BIN” databases, but does not specify which one it wants. (Like we’re supposed to know?) It then requires your name and email address to download any of them, to enable the plugin work at all, and I decided I wasn’t going to jump through a bunch of hoops I don’t understand, and attempted to just deactivate & delete the plugin. (I’ll just manually edit my .htaccess.)

Well, it simply would not deactivate. What?? Scared me good! I logged into my hosting account and ripped out the files by their roots from the file manager, and when I went back into my WordPress, I got the “error” message that the IP2Location plugin was now deactivated, since the files were missing. As was intended (phew!).

I see there was already a thread a few months ago on the same issue, which was incorrectly labeled “Resolved”.

No, it is definitely NOT resolved.

In case this deactivation of deactivation was not by design, and was merely a conflict of some sort, I’m running the Nirvana theme, and below is my list of plugins, because sometimes plugins, even inactive ones, can conflict with themes or other plugins.

— Active Plugins —
Black Studio TinyMCE Widget
BruteProtect
Bulk Remove Pending Comments
Contact Form 7
Contact Form DB
Cryout Serious Theme Settings
Disable Gutenberg
Duplicate Post
Easy FancyBox
Erident Custom Login and Dashboard
InfiniteWP – Client
InfiniteWP – Client Loader
Shortcodes Ultimate
Simple Sitemap
Stop Media Comment Spamming
The Simplest Favicon
TinyMCE Advanced
WordPress Database Backup
WP Live Preview Links
WP Simple Paypal Shopping cart
WP-Matomo

— Inactive Plugins —
AddToAny Share Buttons
ShareThis
Table of Contents Creator
WordPress Steem
WP to Twitter
WP-CopyProtect

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I’m not really planning to re-install IP2Location, but I thought the authors would want to know about this unresolved bug.