This doesn’t count for all beacons, i have a few friends in my list who appear to me quite often, and i do have perms to some friends to my Elop Portas home The Annex and i do not have any perms connected to my Redwood Lodge except to the owner of Redwood, my friends have followed me into the area a few times and i still get footfall as long as the beacon doesn’t contain any permissions for that specific player
Simply put, all Beacons have their own set of Permissions.