Left click on my mouse acts (randomly) as the back button, reverting me back to the previous page

There is a seemingly random issue with my mouse where the left click acts like a back button. This happens predominantly with webpages (like facebook) but occasionally it happens in file explorer and other apps. I've searched this issue before and apart from one post by a microsoft Tech who suggested the person wipe their OS and reinstall it...the only other suggestion was toggling the Touch indicator option in settings. While this does seem to reduce the frequency for a while it has certainly not fixed the problem. Does anyone have a better solution than nuking my OS? I'm on an up-to-date ver

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