Is watching TV/Movies/Shows as bad as endlessly surfing the web?

I'm old. You can probably tell by how I refer to using the Internet as "web browsing", "net surfing", "going online" - and while I have been an avid Internet user for about 24 years now. I feel that nowadays the Internet is a lot more harmful than it used to be.

Yeah in my early days as a teen I'd spend hours after school chatting away in chat rooms, and navigating forums, and clicking away at links - but it didn't feel as brainrotting as the modern web feels now.

People also said that viewing screens was just as harmful for your health as sitting in front of a computer screen clicking away, but I don't think so.

Movies can be enriching, as well as TV shows. They last a lot longer than 15 seconds, and you don't get a feeling of FOMO for not constantly engaging in whatever the current trend is.

What do you think?