Yes the data is taken out of context I agree, but I think they do give you an impression of the player - i.e. winner or loser, shark or fish. This can help with decision making, but it shouldn't. I too do not like these tools overall, but will use them since they are available.
I think the online poker rooms should do more to prevent this data being made available. I know Party Poker no longer have lobby areas for their SNGs, which confused the hell out of me when I was playing there. It was annoying as I wasn't sure how many were paid and had to check their website. I thought afterwards that maybe it was to prevent data mining, since this is where most of the data is taken from.
In truth I'm not sure what can be done, other than opting out of their database. Let's not forget that the rooms themselves don't like data mining, and if it was easy to prevent then I'm sure with all their millions they'd be able to.
Note: if I had your stats on SharkScope then I'd love people to know about it. Not bad (understatement) for someone "fooling around". But I know this isn't the issue.
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