Cookies not working properly

[andrewkucz]

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Andrews-Mac-mini:~ andrewkuc$ youtube-dl -v
[debug] System config: [u'--batch-file', u'/Users/andrewkuc/Dropbox/Public/DL.txt', u'-o', u'/Users/andrewkuc/Movies/.private/Videos/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s', u'--cookies', u'/Users/andrewkuc/Dropbox/Public/cookies.txt', u'--username', u'PRIVATE', u'--password', u'PRIVATE']
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v']
[debug] Batch file urls: [u'https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph57604e65e3a6f&pkey=68248601']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.09.08
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-17.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0.2, ffprobe 4.0.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[PornHub] ph57604e65e3a6f: Downloading pc webpage
ERROR: ph57604e65e3a6f: PornHub said: Sorry, but this video is private. You must be friends with random757575 to view this video.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 502, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/pornhub.py", line 154, in _real_extract
    expected=True, video_id=video_id)
ExtractorError: ph57604e65e3a6f: PornHub said: Sorry, but this video is private. You must be friends with random757575 to view this video.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I'm aware that cookies themselves do not guarantee success but after browsing old issues I found the following issue with an identical problem to mine months ago. #15697

At the end of that thread the issue appears to be resolved, however, unless I'm doing something wrong, the issue persists.