They are different since binary options is not connected to Forex market and they are just depending on the movement of the market and they dont put any effect.I could say binary options is risky if you dont have too much knowledge on forex market since you would trade randomly and that would be like a blind gambling too.
Agree with you, basically binary option action is based on yes or no decision, which it's like gambling the price also at a certain time, which it could be not happens instead.
According to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_option this form is exposed as scam with the scheme use trading structure, so people just see it's just a trading system with different form.