I think world is really unfair - Dennis Ritchie & John McCarthy got little acknowledgement even though they built the core technology (Programming Constructs, LISP, C, Unix, AI and GC etc) which is foundation for the current {new} technology.
Sad to hear about this. I love LISP and discovered the beauty of it when I was part of Gensysm product team - large scale real time system with AI and NN.
If you want to stop pushing tracking data to Facaebook from your machine then just add a local redirect in your hosts file for facebook.com to map to 127.0.0.1 and just comment it when you want to use Facebook site :)