Cookie options

Does anyone else get really fed up of going to a web page to look at something only to be confronted by a big page about cookies and whether you want them or not? Some pages have these options at the bottom and I can have a quick scan to see if the article is what I want, but so often it's across the whole page and I hav to go through reams of crap only to find that its not what I wanted. I wish more sites would have a reject all cookies option as it's first option rather than having it hidden away somewhere at the bottom of the page of options. I dislike it so much that I often just ignore the page entirely and find something more user friendly thats actually going to tell me what I want to know rather than give me all this faff. Why do they all assume that we want them following us about the place, why not just be able to bookmark the site or something if it's something we're going to use often?