Why am I experiencing strange mouse scroll wheel behavior in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?

I have experienced this issue in two different browsers, Chrome, and Firefox, both running on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I'll be reading some long article, using the scroll wheel on a Logitech MX Master 3S mouse to navigate through the article. At some point, without warning, the functioning of the scroll wheel changes from scrolling the content to changing the zoom factor of the browser, zooming it in or out depending on the direction of the mouse scroll wheel movement. What might have caused this annoying and unwanted shift in functionality?

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