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diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
index 60db92204..0cd217eb3 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
@@ -3221,7 +3221,10 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
""" Return a compat_cookies.SimpleCookie with the cookies for the url """
req = sanitized_Request(url)
self._downloader.cookiejar.add_cookie_header(req)
- return compat_cookies.SimpleCookie(req.get_header('Cookie'))
+ cookie = req.get_header('Cookie')
+ if cookie and sys.version_info[0] == 2:
+ cookie = str(cookie)
+ return compat_cookies.SimpleCookie(cookie)
def _apply_first_set_cookie_header(self, url_handle, cookie):
"""