How to block bots?

[RolandP]

Trying again:

I have received many signups to my newsletter from the email domain "rtremail.com" which I suspect of being a bot and not a real email address. I've searched online for more information about rtremail and all I keep getting are links about Right to Represent documents from recruiters. Can someone please confirm that I can delete these @rtremail.com subscribers because they are not real? 

[Entesta]

Hi Roland,

You can try out this code block. This code will add a frontend check, if the email entered contains the rtremail.com then it will not submit the form.

<script>

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {

const form = document.querySelector('#ContactFooter');

console.log('form found')

if (form) {

form.addEventListener('submit', (e) => {

e.preventDefault();

const emailInput = form.querySelector('input[type="email"]');

if (emailInput) {

const emailAddress = emailInput.value;

console.log('email ---> ', emailAddress);

if (emailAddress.includes('@rtremail.com')) {

return

}

} else {

console.error('Email input not found in the form');

}

});

} else {

console.error('Newsletter form not found');

}

});

</script>

The #ContactFooter is the ID of the newsletter form of my theme. Your theme can have a different ID for the newsletter form.

Feel free to revert if you need further assistance and do let me know if it helps.

Thanks.

[RolandP]

Thank you very much for this -- it may be helpful.