diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/10873-six.yml b/changelogs/fragments/10873-six.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d9ea201520
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/10873-six.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "Avoid usage of deprecated ``ansible.module_utils.six`` in all code that does not have to support Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/10873)."
diff --git a/plugins/become/pmrun.py b/plugins/become/pmrun.py
index a2432d92ee..e57dbb5ec6 100644
--- a/plugins/become/pmrun.py
+++ b/plugins/become/pmrun.py
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ notes:
   - This plugin ignores the C(become_user) supplied and uses C(pmrun)'s own configuration to select the user.
 """
 
+from shlex import quote as shlex_quote
 from ansible.plugins.become import BecomeBase
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
 
 
 class BecomeModule(BecomeBase):
diff --git a/plugins/cache/pickle.py b/plugins/cache/pickle.py
index 7dae0f2d85..1c1644d587 100644
--- a/plugins/cache/pickle.py
+++ b/plugins/cache/pickle.py
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     import pickle
 
-from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3
 from ansible.plugins.cache import BaseFileCacheModule
 
 
@@ -61,10 +60,7 @@ class CacheModule(BaseFileCacheModule):
     def _load(self, filepath):
         # Pickle is a binary format
         with open(filepath, 'rb') as f:
-            if PY3:
-                return pickle.load(f, encoding='bytes')
-            else:
-                return pickle.load(f)
+            return pickle.load(f, encoding='bytes')
 
     def _dump(self, value, filepath):
         with open(filepath, 'wb') as f:
diff --git a/plugins/callback/dense.py b/plugins/callback/dense.py
index d0682408cd..45187f0c96 100644
--- a/plugins/callback/dense.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/dense.py
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type, text_type
 from collections.abc import MutableMapping, MutableSequence
 from ansible.plugins.callback.default import CallbackModule as CallbackModule_default
 from ansible.utils.color import colorize, hostcolor
@@ -236,7 +235,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackModule_default):
 
         # Remove empty attributes (list, dict, str)
         for attr in result.copy():
-            if isinstance(result[attr], (MutableSequence, MutableMapping, binary_type, text_type)):
+            if isinstance(result[attr], (MutableSequence, MutableMapping, bytes, str)):
                 if not result[attr]:
                     del result[attr]
 
diff --git a/plugins/callback/elastic.py b/plugins/callback/elastic.py
index cfa66e53b9..0818326851 100644
--- a/plugins/callback/elastic.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/elastic.py
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ from contextlib import closing
 from os.path import basename
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleRuntimeError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import raise_from
 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase
 
 try:
@@ -312,9 +311,7 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
         self.disabled = False
 
         if ELASTIC_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR:
-            raise_from(
-                AnsibleError('The `elastic-apm` must be installed to use this plugin'),
-                ELASTIC_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR)
+            raise AnsibleError('The `elastic-apm` must be installed to use this plugin') from ELASTIC_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR
 
         self.tasks_data = OrderedDict()
 
diff --git a/plugins/callback/nrdp.py b/plugins/callback/nrdp.py
index 375876973a..12a580a11a 100644
--- a/plugins/callback/nrdp.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/nrdp.py
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ options:
     type: string
 """
 
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode
+from urllib.parse import urlencode
+
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase
diff --git a/plugins/callback/opentelemetry.py b/plugins/callback/opentelemetry.py
index 14b777e219..03f392206d 100644
--- a/plugins/callback/opentelemetry.py
+++ b/plugins/callback/opentelemetry.py
@@ -137,14 +137,12 @@ import json
 import os
 import socket
 import uuid
-from time import time_ns
-
 from collections import OrderedDict
 from os.path import basename
+from time import time_ns
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import raise_from
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
 from ansible.plugins.callback import CallbackBase
 
 try:
@@ -499,9 +497,9 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
         self.otel_exporter_otlp_traces_protocol = None
 
         if OTEL_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR:
-            raise_from(
-                AnsibleError('The `opentelemetry-api`, `opentelemetry-exporter-otlp` or `opentelemetry-sdk` must be installed to use this plugin'),
-                OTEL_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR)
+            raise AnsibleError(
+                'The `opentelemetry-api`, `opentelemetry-exporter-otlp` or `opentelemetry-sdk` must be installed to use this plugin'
+            ) from OTEL_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR
 
         self.tasks_data = OrderedDict()
 
diff --git a/plugins/connection/chroot.py b/plugins/connection/chroot.py
index 842c3f05d3..affbe9babe 100644
--- a/plugins/connection/chroot.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/chroot.py
@@ -75,11 +75,11 @@ import os
 import os.path
 import subprocess
 import traceback
+from shlex import quote as shlex_quote
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import is_executable
 from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase, BUFSIZE
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/plugins/connection/jail.py b/plugins/connection/jail.py
index 6f06c96774..289da447c7 100644
--- a/plugins/connection/jail.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/jail.py
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ import os
 import os.path
 import subprocess
 import traceback
+from shlex import quote as shlex_quote
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
 from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase, BUFSIZE
diff --git a/plugins/connection/zone.py b/plugins/connection/zone.py
index baca9312b3..87b6c7ceb2 100644
--- a/plugins/connection/zone.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/zone.py
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ import os
 import os.path
 import subprocess
 import traceback
+from shlex import quote as shlex_quote
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import shlex_quote
 from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase, BUFSIZE
diff --git a/plugins/filter/from_ini.py b/plugins/filter/from_ini.py
index d77338df99..c97455b758 100644
--- a/plugins/filter/from_ini.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/from_ini.py
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ _value:
 """
 
 
+from io import StringIO
+from configparser import ConfigParser
+
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import StringIO
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.configparser import ConfigParser
 
 
 class IniParser(ConfigParser):
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class IniParser(ConfigParser):
 def from_ini(obj):
     ''' Read the given string as INI file and return a dict '''
 
-    if not isinstance(obj, string_types):
+    if not isinstance(obj, str):
         raise AnsibleFilterError(f'from_ini requires a str, got {type(obj)}')
 
     parser = IniParser()
diff --git a/plugins/filter/lists_mergeby.py b/plugins/filter/lists_mergeby.py
index cc0793b6c7..9e9e3d9533 100644
--- a/plugins/filter/lists_mergeby.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/lists_mergeby.py
@@ -196,7 +196,6 @@ _value:
 """
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from collections.abc import Mapping, Sequence
 from ansible.utils.vars import merge_hash
 
@@ -257,7 +256,7 @@ def lists_mergeby(*terms, **kwargs):
 
     index = terms[-1]
 
-    if not isinstance(index, string_types):
+    if not isinstance(index, str):
         msg = ("First argument after the lists for community.general.lists_mergeby must be string. "
                "%s is %s")
         raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (index, type(index)))
diff --git a/plugins/filter/random_mac.py b/plugins/filter/random_mac.py
index 1ece58230c..94027bff2c 100644
--- a/plugins/filter/random_mac.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/random_mac.py
@@ -45,14 +45,13 @@ import re
 from random import Random, SystemRandom
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 
 
 def random_mac(value, seed=None):
     ''' takes string prefix, and return it completed with random bytes
         to get a complete 6 bytes MAC address '''
 
-    if not isinstance(value, string_types):
+    if not isinstance(value, str):
         raise AnsibleFilterError('Invalid value type (%s) for random_mac (%s)' %
                                  (type(value), value))
 
diff --git a/plugins/filter/to_ini.py b/plugins/filter/to_ini.py
index 1cbf44e958..319440dd5e 100644
--- a/plugins/filter/to_ini.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_ini.py
@@ -49,11 +49,10 @@ _value:
   type: string
 """
 
-
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
 from collections.abc import Mapping
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import StringIO
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.configparser import ConfigParser
+from configparser import ConfigParser
+from io import StringIO
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
 
 
 class IniParser(ConfigParser):
diff --git a/plugins/filter/to_prettytable.py b/plugins/filter/to_prettytable.py
index a956e5d1a2..b7daf8dc91 100644
--- a/plugins/filter/to_prettytable.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/to_prettytable.py
@@ -120,7 +120,6 @@ except ImportError:
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 
 
 class TypeValidationError(AnsibleFilterError):
@@ -131,7 +130,7 @@ class TypeValidationError(AnsibleFilterError):
         expected: Description of expected type
     """
     def __init__(self, obj, expected):
-        type_name = "string" if isinstance(obj, string_types) else type(obj).__name__
+        type_name = "string" if isinstance(obj, str) else type(obj).__name__
         super().__init__(f"Expected {expected}, got a {type_name}")
 
 
@@ -160,7 +159,7 @@ def _validate_list_param(param, param_name, ensure_strings=True):
 
     if ensure_strings:
         for item in param:
-            if not isinstance(item, string_types):
+            if not isinstance(item, str):
                 # Maintain original error message format
                 if param_name == "column_order":
                     error_msg = "a string for column name"
@@ -186,7 +185,7 @@ def _match_key(item_dict, lookup_key):
         return lookup_key
 
     # Try boolean conversion for 'true'/'false' strings
-    if isinstance(lookup_key, string_types):
+    if isinstance(lookup_key, str):
         if lookup_key.lower() == 'true' and True in item_dict:
             return True
         if lookup_key.lower() == 'false' and False in item_dict:
@@ -338,11 +337,11 @@ def to_prettytable(data, *args, **kwargs):
     # Validate column_alignments keys and values
     for key, value in column_alignments.items():
         # Check that keys are strings
-        if not isinstance(key, string_types):
+        if not isinstance(key, str):
             raise TypeValidationError(key, "a string for column_alignments key")
 
         # Check that values are strings
-        if not isinstance(value, string_types):
+        if not isinstance(value, str):
             raise TypeValidationError(value, "a string for column_alignments value")
 
         # Check that values are valid alignments
@@ -394,7 +393,7 @@ def to_prettytable(data, *args, **kwargs):
                     row.append(item.get(matched_key, ""))
                 else:
                     # Try case-insensitive lookup as last resort
-                    lower_col = col.lower() if isinstance(col, string_types) else str(col).lower()
+                    lower_col = col.lower() if isinstance(col, str) else str(col).lower()
                     if lower_col in reverse_key_map:
                         row.append(item.get(reverse_key_map[lower_col], ""))
                     else:
diff --git a/plugins/filter/unicode_normalize.py b/plugins/filter/unicode_normalize.py
index aed7979de8..174d6b737a 100644
--- a/plugins/filter/unicode_normalize.py
+++ b/plugins/filter/unicode_normalize.py
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ _value:
 from unicodedata import normalize
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
 
 try:
     from ansible.errors import AnsibleTypeError
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ def unicode_normalize(data, form='NFC'):
         A normalized unicode string of the specified 'form'.
     """
 
-    if not isinstance(data, text_type):
+    if not isinstance(data, str):
         raise AnsibleTypeError("%s is not a valid input type" % type(data))
 
     if form not in ('NFC', 'NFD', 'NFKC', 'NFKD'):
diff --git a/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py b/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py
index 3526093b8c..013bcbd99f 100644
--- a/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/cobbler.py
@@ -131,7 +131,6 @@ import socket
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable, to_safe_group_name
-from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
 
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
 
@@ -260,7 +259,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable):
             self.cobbler = xmlrpc_client.Server(self.cobbler_url, allow_none=True)
         self.token = None
         if self.get_option('user') is not None:
-            self.token = self.cobbler.login(text_type(self.get_option('user')), text_type(self.get_option('password')))
+            self.token = self.cobbler.login(str(self.get_option('user')), str(self.get_option('password')))
 
         self.cache_key = self.get_cache_key(path)
         self.use_cache = cache and self.get_option('cache')
diff --git a/plugins/inventory/icinga2.py b/plugins/inventory/icinga2.py
index 5b549d8e9c..37fd76b3f0 100644
--- a/plugins/inventory/icinga2.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/icinga2.py
@@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ compose:
 """
 
 import json
+from urllib.error import HTTPError
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleParserError
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.error import HTTPError
 
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
 
diff --git a/plugins/inventory/lxd.py b/plugins/inventory/lxd.py
index b1492d663c..1d91618aa5 100644
--- a/plugins/inventory/lxd.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/lxd.py
@@ -171,12 +171,12 @@ import json
 import re
 import time
 import os
+from urllib.parse import urlencode
+
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common.dict_transformations import dict_merge
-from ansible.module_utils.six import raise_from
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.lxd import LXDClient, LXDClientException
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
 
@@ -1094,9 +1094,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
         Returns:
             None"""
         if IPADDRESS_IMPORT_ERROR:
-            raise_from(
-                AnsibleError('another_library must be installed to use this plugin'),
-                IPADDRESS_IMPORT_ERROR)
+            raise AnsibleError('another_library must be installed to use this plugin') from IPADDRESS_IMPORT_ERROR
 
         super(InventoryModule, self).parse(inventory, loader, path, cache=False)
         # Read the inventory YAML file
diff --git a/plugins/inventory/online.py b/plugins/inventory/online.py
index e88deb4012..25784efd41 100644
--- a/plugins/inventory/online.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/online.py
@@ -62,13 +62,13 @@ groups:
 
 import json
 from sys import version as python_version
+from urllib.parse import urljoin
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.ansible_release import __version__ as ansible_version
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin
 
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
 
diff --git a/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py b/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py
index feeaefda0b..624dba7bfb 100644
--- a/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py
@@ -224,13 +224,12 @@ want_proxmox_nodes_ansible_host: true
 
 import itertools
 import re
+from urllib.parse import urlencode
 
 from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import MutableMapping
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.version import LooseVersion
@@ -498,7 +497,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
                         out_val[k] = v
                     value = out_val
 
-                if config not in plaintext_configs and isinstance(value, string_types) \
+                if config not in plaintext_configs and isinstance(value, str) \
                         and all("=" in v for v in value.split(",")):
                     # split off strings with commas to a dict
                     # skip over any keys that cannot be processed
diff --git a/plugins/inventory/scaleway.py b/plugins/inventory/scaleway.py
index 488bbbe084..d6c7e85c77 100644
--- a/plugins/inventory/scaleway.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/scaleway.py
@@ -128,9 +128,8 @@ from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.scaleway import
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.unsafe import make_unsafe
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
-from ansible.module_utils.six import raise_from
 
-import ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse as urllib_parse
+import urllib.parse as urllib_parse
 
 
 def _fetch_information(token, url):
@@ -334,7 +333,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable):
 
     def parse(self, inventory, loader, path, cache=True):
         if YAML_IMPORT_ERROR:
-            raise_from(AnsibleError('PyYAML is probably missing'), YAML_IMPORT_ERROR)
+            raise AnsibleError('PyYAML is probably missing') from YAML_IMPORT_ERROR
         super(InventoryModule, self).parse(inventory, loader, path)
         self._read_config_data(path=path)
 
diff --git a/plugins/lookup/consul_kv.py b/plugins/lookup/consul_kv.py
index 349b7f3db2..0bce48f30a 100644
--- a/plugins/lookup/consul_kv.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/consul_kv.py
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ _raw:
   type: dict
 """
 
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
+
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleAssertionError
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
diff --git a/plugins/lookup/dependent.py b/plugins/lookup/dependent.py
index 01cc49bb9e..d85cbf0193 100644
--- a/plugins/lookup/dependent.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/dependent.py
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ _list:
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleLookupError
 from collections.abc import Mapping, Sequence
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 from ansible.release import __version__ as ansible_version
 from ansible.template import Templar
@@ -225,7 +224,7 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
                     raise AnsibleLookupError(
                         f'The variable {k!r} appears more than once')
                 vars_so_far.add(k)
-                if isinstance(v, string_types):
+                if isinstance(v, str):
                     data.append((k, v, None))
                 elif isinstance(v, (Sequence, Mapping)):
                     data.append((k, None, v))
diff --git a/plugins/lookup/flattened.py b/plugins/lookup/flattened.py
index c558df110f..9859a47402 100644
--- a/plugins/lookup/flattened.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/flattened.py
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ _raw:
   type: list
 """
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 from ansible.utils.listify import listify_lookup_plugin_terms
 
@@ -65,7 +64,7 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
                 # ignore undefined items
                 break
 
-            if isinstance(term, string_types):
+            if isinstance(term, str):
                 # convert a variable to a list
                 try:
                     term2 = listify_lookup_plugin_terms(term, templar=self._templar)
diff --git a/plugins/lookup/github_app_access_token.py b/plugins/lookup/github_app_access_token.py
index dbc8cde3b5..5dbb36836b 100644
--- a/plugins/lookup/github_app_access_token.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/github_app_access_token.py
@@ -75,8 +75,9 @@ except ImportError:
 
 import time
 import json
+from urllib.error import HTTPError
+
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.error import HTTPError
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
diff --git a/plugins/lookup/manifold.py b/plugins/lookup/manifold.py
index 08e63fd7ee..455cda65cf 100644
--- a/plugins/lookup/manifold.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/manifold.py
@@ -63,16 +63,18 @@ RETURN = '''
               the same environment variable(s), the last one returned by the Manifold API will take precedence.
         type: dict
 '''
+
+import json
+import sys
+from traceback import format_exception
+from urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError
+from urllib.parse import urlencode
+
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url, ConnectionError, SSLValidationError
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode
 from ansible.module_utils import six
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
-from traceback import format_exception
-import json
-import sys
 
 display = Display()
 
diff --git a/plugins/lookup/onepassword.py b/plugins/lookup/onepassword.py
index d30234f14d..fecdcb3a16 100644
--- a/plugins/lookup/onepassword.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/onepassword.py
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleLookupError, AnsibleOptionsError
 from ansible.module_utils.common.process import get_bin_path
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text
-from ansible.module_utils.six import with_metaclass
 
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.module_utils.onepassword import OnePasswordConfig
 
@@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ def _lower_if_possible(value):
         return value
 
 
-class OnePassCLIBase(with_metaclass(abc.ABCMeta, object)):
+class OnePassCLIBase(object, metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
     bin = "op"
 
     def __init__(
diff --git a/plugins/lookup/revbitspss.py b/plugins/lookup/revbitspss.py
index c40140671d..c94b7aec6e 100644
--- a/plugins/lookup/revbitspss.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/revbitspss.py
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ EXAMPLES = r"""
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import raise_from
 
 try:
     from pam.revbits_ansible.server import SecretServer
@@ -87,10 +86,7 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
 
     def run(self, terms, variables, **kwargs):
         if ANOTHER_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR:
-            raise_from(
-                AnsibleError('revbits_ansible must be installed to use this plugin'),
-                ANOTHER_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR
-            )
+            raise AnsibleError('revbits_ansible must be installed to use this plugin') from ANOTHER_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR
         self.set_options(var_options=variables, direct=kwargs)
         secret_server = LookupModule.Client(
             {
diff --git a/plugins/lookup/tss.py b/plugins/lookup/tss.py
index 6a97d4b29c..74747bb9b1 100644
--- a/plugins/lookup/tss.py
+++ b/plugins/lookup/tss.py
@@ -258,7 +258,6 @@ EXAMPLES = r"""
 import abc
 import os
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError
-from ansible.module_utils import six
 from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
 from ansible.utils.display import Display
 
@@ -289,8 +288,7 @@ except ImportError:
 display = Display()
 
 
-@six.add_metaclass(abc.ABCMeta)
-class TSSClient(object):
+class TSSClient(object, metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
     def __init__(self):
         self._client = None
 
diff --git a/plugins/plugin_utils/keys_filter.py b/plugins/plugin_utils/keys_filter.py
index 4aaf1463a0..0ec5889709 100644
--- a/plugins/plugin_utils/keys_filter.py
+++ b/plugins/plugin_utils/keys_filter.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 import re
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from collections.abc import Mapping, Sequence
 
 
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ def _keys_filter_params(data, matching_parameter):
             raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (elem, type(elem)))
 
     for elem in data:
-        if not all(isinstance(item, string_types) for item in elem.keys()):
+        if not all(isinstance(item, str) for item in elem.keys()):
             msg = "Top level keys must be strings. keys: %s"
             raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % elem.keys())
 
@@ -65,12 +64,12 @@ def _keys_filter_target_str(target, matching_parameter):
 
     if isinstance(target, list):
         for elem in target:
-            if not isinstance(elem, string_types):
+            if not isinstance(elem, str):
                 msg = "The target items must be strings. %s is %s"
                 raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (elem, type(elem)))
 
     if matching_parameter == 'regex':
-        if isinstance(target, string_types):
+        if isinstance(target, str):
             r = target
         else:
             if len(target) > 1:
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ def _keys_filter_target_str(target, matching_parameter):
         except re.error:
             msg = "The target must be a valid regex if matching_parameter=regex. target is %s"
             raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % r)
-    elif isinstance(target, string_types):
+    elif isinstance(target, str):
         tt = (target, )
     else:
         tt = tuple(set(target))
@@ -117,10 +116,10 @@ def _keys_filter_target_dict(target, matching_parameter):
         if not all(k in elem for k in ('before', 'after')):
             msg = "All dictionaries in target must include attributes: after, before."
             raise AnsibleFilterError(msg)
-        if not isinstance(elem['before'], string_types):
+        if not isinstance(elem['before'], str):
             msg = "The attributes before must be strings. %s is %s"
             raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (elem['before'], type(elem['before'])))
-        if not isinstance(elem['after'], string_types):
+        if not isinstance(elem['after'], str):
             msg = "The attributes after must be strings. %s is %s"
             raise AnsibleFilterError(msg % (elem['after'], type(elem['after'])))
 
diff --git a/plugins/plugin_utils/unsafe.py b/plugins/plugin_utils/unsafe.py
index c08bf58e18..7c59550120 100644
--- a/plugins/plugin_utils/unsafe.py
+++ b/plugins/plugin_utils/unsafe.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 import re
 
-from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type, text_type
 from collections.abc import Mapping, Set
 from ansible.module_utils.common.collections import is_sequence
 from ansible.utils.unsafe_proxy import (
@@ -29,11 +28,11 @@ def make_unsafe(value):
         return set(make_unsafe(elt) for elt in value)
     elif is_sequence(value):
         return type(value)(make_unsafe(elt) for elt in value)
-    elif isinstance(value, binary_type):
+    elif isinstance(value, bytes):
         if _RE_TEMPLATE_CHARS_BYTES.search(value):
             value = _make_unsafe(value)
         return value
-    elif isinstance(value, text_type):
+    elif isinstance(value, str):
         if _RE_TEMPLATE_CHARS.search(value):
             value = _make_unsafe(value)
         return value
diff --git a/plugins/test/ansible_type.py b/plugins/test/ansible_type.py
index f2db7404c6..fdd0787b66 100644
--- a/plugins/test/ansible_type.py
+++ b/plugins/test/ansible_type.py
@@ -223,8 +223,9 @@ _value:
   type: bool
 '''
 
+from collections.abc import Sequence
+
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleFilterError
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.collections_abc import Sequence
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.plugin_utils.ansible_type import _ansible_type
 
 
diff --git a/plugins/test/fqdn_valid.py b/plugins/test/fqdn_valid.py
index c8a143687a..ed4d2889b9 100644
--- a/plugins/test/fqdn_valid.py
+++ b/plugins/test/fqdn_valid.py
@@ -5,16 +5,6 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils.six import raise_from
-
-try:
-    from fqdn import FQDN
-except ImportError as imp_exc:
-    ANOTHER_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR = imp_exc
-else:
-    ANOTHER_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR = None
-
 
 DOCUMENTATION = '''
 name: fqdn_valid
@@ -74,6 +64,15 @@ _value:
   type: bool
 '''
 
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
+
+try:
+    from fqdn import FQDN
+except ImportError as imp_exc:
+    ANOTHER_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR = imp_exc
+else:
+    ANOTHER_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR = None
+
 
 def fqdn_valid(name, min_labels=1, allow_underscores=False):
     """
@@ -83,10 +82,7 @@ def fqdn_valid(name, min_labels=1, allow_underscores=False):
     """
 
     if ANOTHER_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR:
-        raise_from(
-            AnsibleError('Python package fqdn must be installed to use this test.'),
-            ANOTHER_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR
-        )
+        raise AnsibleError('Python package fqdn must be installed to use this test.') from ANOTHER_LIBRARY_IMPORT_ERROR
 
     fobj = FQDN(name, min_labels=min_labels, allow_underscores=allow_underscores)
     return (fobj.is_valid)
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/callback/filter_plugins/helper.py b/tests/integration/targets/callback/filter_plugins/helper.py
index 867dce6c75..9599e141f1 100644
--- a/tests/integration/targets/callback/filter_plugins/helper.py
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/callback/filter_plugins/helper.py
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
-
 
 def callback_results_extractor(outputs_results):
     results = []
@@ -18,7 +16,7 @@ def callback_results_extractor(outputs_results):
             line = "line_%s" % (i + 1)
             test_line = stdout_lines[i] if i < len(stdout_lines) else None
             expected_lines = expected_output[i] if i < len(expected_output) else None
-            if not isinstance(expected_lines, string_types) and expected_lines is not None:
+            if not isinstance(expected_lines, str) and expected_lines is not None:
                 if test_line not in expected_lines:
                     differences.append({
                         'line': {
diff --git a/tests/sanity/ignore-2.20.txt b/tests/sanity/ignore-2.20.txt
index 8ee4fdd315..70a654d7db 100644
--- a/tests/sanity/ignore-2.20.txt
+++ b/tests/sanity/ignore-2.20.txt
@@ -1,20 +1,3 @@
-plugins/cache/pickle.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/callback/dense.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/callback/elastic.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/callback/opentelemetry.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/filter/from_ini.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/filter/lists_mergeby.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/filter/random_mac.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/filter/to_prettytable.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/filter/unicode_normalize.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/inventory/cobbler.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/inventory/lxd.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/inventory/proxmox.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/inventory/scaleway.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/lookup/dependent.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/lookup/flattened.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/lookup/onepassword.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/lookup/revbitspss.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 plugins/module_utils/csv.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 plugins/module_utils/gitlab.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 plugins/module_utils/homebrew.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
@@ -57,10 +40,6 @@ plugins/modules/xfconf.py validate-modules:return-syntax-error
 plugins/modules/xml.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 plugins/modules/zpool_facts.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 plugins/modules/zypper_repository.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/plugin_utils/keys_filter.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/plugin_utils/unsafe.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-plugins/test/fqdn_valid.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
-tests/integration/targets/callback/filter_plugins/helper.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 tests/unit/plugins/module_utils/identity/keycloak/test_keycloak_connect.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 tests/unit/plugins/module_utils/net_tools/pritunl/test_api.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 tests/unit/plugins/modules/conftest.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
diff --git a/tests/unit/plugins/lookup/test_manifold.py b/tests/unit/plugins/lookup/test_manifold.py
index e8e63c9227..ba54c1d0b5 100644
--- a/tests/unit/plugins/lookup/test_manifold.py
+++ b/tests/unit/plugins/lookup/test_manifold.py
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ from ansible_collections.community.internal_test_tools.tests.unit.compat import
 from ansible_collections.community.internal_test_tools.tests.unit.compat.mock import patch, call
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import ConnectionError, SSLValidationError
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError
 from ansible.module_utils import six
 from ansible.plugins.loader import lookup_loader
 from ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.lookup.manifold import ManifoldApiClient, ApiError
 import json
 import os
+from urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError
 
 
 API_FIXTURES = {