How can I disable page swiping for Safari specifically, on MacOS

I had a very frustrating experience where I have been working on writing a piece of text (for about an hour!) in a text form on Github and just before I wanted to submit my work, I touched the magic trackpad in a way that was recognised as a page swipe. Because of this accidental gesture I lost all my work!!

I have never liked swiping through the webpage history on Safari and this just adds to the frustration in a big way.

So, how can I disable page swiping for Safari **specifically**, on MacOS? In other places page swiping makes sense (e.g. in a PDF viewer), but not on Safari.

Please stop this madness, it's so frustrating to lose work! 12 years ago I converted to Mac because it was one of my biggest frustrations on Windows. Please Apple, reconsider this feature!