My phone is approx 5 year old Redmi 5 plus. The phone is undamaged and still in good condition. Running Android 8 with necessary vendor updates regularly applied.
During the last week, it seems to be registering numerous "false taps". Basically, whenever I am scrolling on my phone, for example, reading a news article on ABC, if I happen to hover over a link with my finger depressed on the screen, it will annoyingly open the link/picture/item/component that is visible on the page. This issue is happening with multiple apps and webpages, so I am constantly having to go 'back' or 'home' to resume where I was.
At first, I thought I was being clumsy and pressing on links but due to the frequency of this happening I am convinced there may be a problem with the digitizer or screen itself. It's a strange, intermittent issue that google does not yield many results for.
Does it have a screen protector?